Darwin's God

One argument for why evolution is true is that it necessarily follows from the mere existence of biological variation that is inherited, lim...

How could the most complex designs in the universe arise all by themselves? How could biology’s myriad wonders be fueled by random events ...

We recently reported the thought-provoking findings that our genes are not only regulated by our own microRNA—those small snippets of trans...

You may recall that objects have particular colors because, at the molecular level, light rays at certain frequencies (corresponding to ce...

One day while walking to the life science library I was stopped by a cultist who wanted me to join. Having spoken with cultists before, I wa...

In our previous two posts we discussed an evolution professor who, in one blog post, makes several fundamental but typical mistakes. But his...

In our previous post we discussed an evolution professor who, in one blog post, makes two fundamental mistakes. But his mistakes don’t stop...

Poker players don’t lose with bad hands, they lose with great hands. I once saw a player dealt a four of a kind while the other player was d...

Ivan Schwab’s new book on the evolution of vision systems is a vivid reminder of our blindness. Recently we reviewed how minor changes such ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words then an animation is worth a thousand books. Biology is often well suited to those who learn through...

If you know nothing else about the theory of evolution you probably remember that it is supposed to be driven by natural selection acting on...

Tel Aviv’s Eva Jablonka and Snait Gissis have a new volume out, courtesy of MIT Press, on the resurgence of Lamarckism which is, as Oxford’...

Like punctuated equilibrium, Ernst Mayr occasionally sprinkled his work with unintended bits of brilliance. In one spurt, he once told Micha...

It is perhaps the most celebrated evolutionary evidence from the genomics era. Like a grammar school teacher who knows cheating occurred whe...

One of the major pillars of evidence claimed for the fact of evolution is the adaptation in populations that we observe. As Ernst Mayr—one o...