Evolution

Probiotic Plus: Fecal Transplants Let Packrats Eat Toxic Food

microbes to highlight their dietary role in woodrats. Antibiotics kill about 90 percent of the gut microbes ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 4:00am

Pregnancy Reenvisioned As A Conflict-Driven Battle Between Mother And Child

about the role of parent-offspring conflict in this process. Did placental control of pregnancy evolve ...

Article - The Conversation - May 6 2016 - 6:30am

The Extended Phenotype- How Richard Dawkins Got It Wrong Twice

working until the next litter is about to appear. Sloppy presentation and assumptions such as these are ...

Article - Steve Davis - Feb 25 2013 - 8:10pm

Natural Selection Before Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) opened his first notebook about "the species question" in ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jul 2 2008 - 10:06am

Lynn Margulis, Neo-Darwinism, And Kin Selection

from fictional mathematical descriptions of non-existent behaviours. That’s about as pathetic as it can ...

Article - Steve Davis - Mar 20 2009 - 9:23am

A Tale Of Two Poisons: The Hunt For Detoxification Genes

known about how plant-eating vertebrate animals disarm plant defenses. Until the advent of genetic ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2009 - 1:00am

Biology: Where The Red Queen Rules

(implying about 15% of sexual reproduction in a population). However, once the  pathogenic bacteria was ...

Article - Bharat Srinivasa - Oct 26 2011 - 10:10am

Evolution In Action: Hudson River Fish Mutate To Adapt To PCBs

Researchers have discovered a genetic variant that allows a fish in the Hudson River to live in waters heavily polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls- PCBs. In their report,  they show that a population of Hudson River fish apparently evolved rapidly in res ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2011 - 2:00pm