Show Me The Science Month Day 4 How did we become human? You can ask the same question in a slightly different way: how did we become different from chimps?  Although the common ancestor that we…

On the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birthday in February 2009, biology and medicine find themselves in crisis.  The promise of stem cell therapy has the potential to dramatically improve…

Show Me The Science Day 3 Reproduction involves some tricky trade-offs for all species, and anyone who has watched a David Attenborough film knows that you can find a wide range of reproductive…

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…