Evolution

Clonal Interference- Evolution Gets Even More Dynamic In Time For Darwin's Birthday

Katy Kao, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, and Stanford University colleague Gavin Sherlock say their new study of yeast cells has resulted in the most detailed picture of an organism's evolutionary process ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2009 - 2:26pm

Darwin And Racism

Edward Larson, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes trial (which I highly recommend), writes in Bookforum about the influence of racism on Darwin's thinking. Creationists argue (as most recently exemplified in Ben Stein's wide ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 31 2009 - 2:07pm

Creationism's Legal History: The Door Is Wide Open

Nearly every summary of creationism and the law that I've read includes some sort of statement to the effect that 'the judicial decisions have left the door cracked slightly open for creation science.' Two generally excellent books on the su ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 22 2009 - 9:47pm

Darwin & Adam Smith, Not Darwin & Marx

Charles Darwin often gets lumped together with Karl Marx in an effort to ascribe the ills of the 20th century to Darwin's ideas about evolution. But science writer Matt Ridley explains why Darwin's ideas are closer to Adam Smith's than they ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 22 2009 - 12:35am

Evolution By Redneck Selection

Do you enjoy hunting or eating seafood?  If so, then you are an agent of detrimental evolutionary change. In the past, I've never thought about how my hunting hobby shapes the evolution of the organism I harvest.  ...

Blog Post - Justin Gerke - Dec 19 2012 - 12:08pm

Don't call it "Darwinism"

For those of you who still are not reading Evolution: Education and Outreach, here's another reason to check it out. ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Jan 24 2009 - 10:24am

Show Me the Science: 30 Days of Evolution Blogging

The world got lucky on February 12th, 1809 with the birth of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. In the United States, Lincoln's 200th birthday will be celebrated in acknowledgement that he was possibly the greatest president in U.S. history. It' ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 31 2009 - 2:07pm

Biased Gene Conversion Deserves Some Credit In Evolution Too, Say Researchers

Why have some of our genes evolved rapidly? It is widely believed that Darwinian natural selection is responsible, but research led by a group at Uppsala University suggests that a separate neutral (nonadaptive) process has made a significant contribution ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2009 - 9:32pm

Is Placozoa Now The Most Primitive Animal In The Tree Of Life?

A new analysis confirms what we already knew- the evolutionary relationships among animals are not simple and the traditional idea that animal evolution has followed a trajectory from simple to complex—from sponge to chordate—had met a dramatic exception i ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2009 - 9:50pm

Primitive Dinosaur Feathers

Show me the science: 30 days of evolution blogging, day 1 Birds are the modern day descendants of dinosaurs, or as paleontologist Kevin Padian likes to say, birds are dinosaurs. But how did birds evolve from grounded, naked reptiles into plumed aviators? ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 4 2009 - 11:34pm