Evolution

The Korean War lasted from June 1950 to July 1953. It served as the basis of the 1968 book MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker (pen name of former army surgeon H. Richard…

As a book junkie, I love to get and give book recommendations. Here is my Darwin Day recommended books list: What Evolution Is, Ernst Mayr - My favorite brief, single-volume primer on evolution for…

(Publicado no jornal O Primeiro de Janeiro a 24/01/2008)A formação paleontológica desperta frequentemente as questões que abordo.Não foi o caso desta vez.Estava eu em frente ao espelho, a preparar-me…

(Publicado no jornal O Primeiro de Janeiro a 01/11/2007)Apesar de muito desejada, a hibernação não passa de um desejo inatingível pelos humanos. Já demos por nós, várias vezes e em alturas de maior…

“What does the body of a professor share with a blob?” Neil Shubin answers this and other questions about the evolutionary history of our anatomy in Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into The 3.5-Billion-…

If you live in Pennsylvania, it's West Virginia. If you live in California, it's every 'red state' in the Union. No matter where you live, some nearby state is the butt of inbreeding jokes. Well…

The Fertile Crescent of the Middle East has long been identified as a “cradle of civilization” for humans. In a new genetic study, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have concluded…

It is commonly suggested by anti-evolutionists that recent discoveries of function in non-coding DNA support intelligent design and refute "Darwinism". This misrepresents both the history and the…

The seminar that I give most often when I am invited to speak at other universities begins with a brief introduction to genomes, sets up some comparisons between bacteria and eukaryotes, and then…

I first became interested in genome size because of its tie-ins with important evolutionary questions in which I was (and still am) interested, such as punctuated vs. gradual patterns, levels of…