Show Me The Science Month Day 16 Black wolves look like creatures out of frightening fairy tales, but their black color actually came from pet dogs. Today's evolution paper is about a potentially…

Show Me The Science Month Day 15 What happens when a big chunk of your genome is accidentally copied? Bad things could obviously happen when when sudden and dramatic changes are made to your genome…

       “The Extended Phenotype – The Long Reach of the Gene” is the book Richard Dawkins wants you to read “if you read nothing else of mine” because “It is probably the finest…

Sunday Science Book Club, February 15 2009 Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soulby Edward HumesHarperCollins, 2007 It is rare for the world to see born on…

Adaptation is one of the driving forces behind evolution, along with selection and the appearance of new species, say a group of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researchers, but they say that…

Today is Darwin Day. I didn't think I'd participate in this particular internet adventure. It looked like a lot of fun, Hank and Adaptive Complexity made sure of that, but it would be a long…

It's the big day, the Darwin Bicentennial, so what are you going to read? You should start by checking out the interesting evolution pieces we've got here on the site, laid out on our Darwin Day…

Coming up on Darwin's birthday, a lot is written about natural selection by non-biologists because opponents of evolution prefer to believe that biology stopped in 1859.  Criticizing Darwin and…

The central dogma of Molecular Genetics is that information flow is unidirectional:  DNA to RNA to PROTEIN.  That is, DNA holds the blueprints, RNA is the messenger, and Proteins are the…

Roughly 10 million years ago, a major genetic change occurred in a common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans. Segments of DNA in its genome began to form duplicate copies at a greater rate…