Evolution

Show Me The Science Month, Day 2 How do two populations change genetically when they are subjected to different evolutionary pressures? To answer this question, many intrepid evolutionary biologists…

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…

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…

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 (…

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…

For those of you who still are not reading Evolution: Education and Outreach, here's another reason to check it out. Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education have a…

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…

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…

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…

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 (…