An Evolutionary Role For Same-Sex Attraction?

An Evolutionary Role For Same-Sex Attraction?

From an evolutionary perspective, same sex attraction doesn't make much sense. But a pair of psychologists writing in Psychological Science say the "kin selection hypothesis" may explain why the…
How Bats (Indirectly) Hit Their Targets

How Bats (Indirectly) Hit Their Targets

Research conducted by scientists at the Weizmann Institute and the University of Maryland reveals that bats, which 'see' with beams of sound waves, skew their beams off-center when they want to…
The debate of food vs fuel

The debate of food vs fuel

The debate of food vs fuel is an excuse for putting lame excuses for our failures to retain productivity level of the farmlands, irregular practices of growing crops in the areas where they should…
Gravity: From Cave-men To Newton

Gravity: From Cave-men To Newton

You're living as part of a small band of hunter-gatherers 30,000 years ago in what will later become France. How do you explain the fact that a stone, when dropped, falls to the earth? How do you…
Carnival of Evolution Now Online

Carnival of Evolution Now Online

Go check out Carnival of Evolution # 20 at Skeptic Wonder. This month's issue includes a metagenomic analysis of the carnival submissions. (I get a fairly long phylogenetic branch of my own!) Go…