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You will be surprised to hear that biological evolution is dead in the water according to the authors of a paper published in Progress in Bi...

How can you possibly be against a book devoted to refuting misinformation about Charles Darwin and his views on evolution? This is an anthol...

Zach Hancock is a postdoc in the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. He has a popular YouTube channel ...

Philip Ball believes that we are in the middle of a revolution in our way of thinking about how life works. His ideas are complex but part o...

Everyone is familiar with the typical March of Progress figures that are often used to illustrate evolution. However, most people don't...

Jonathan McLatchie has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Newcastle University (UK) and he is currently "resident biologist" and a...

The Teacher Institute for Evolutonary Science (TIES) is an organization dedicated to helping teachers explain evolution. A good teac...

Should universities remove online courses that contain incorrect or misleading information? There are lots of scientific controversies...

Philip Ball has just published a new book "How Life Works." The subtitle is "A User’s Guide to the New Biology" and that...

Serious criticisms of evolutionary theory have been floating around for half a century. The main focus is over the Modern Synthesis and whet...

The Wikipedia article on evolution [ Evolution ] is a " Featured article ," which means two things: (1) it is one of the best arti...

Charles Darwin , the greatest scientist who ever lived, was born on this day in 1809 [ Darwin still spurs tributes, debates ] [ Happy Darwin...

(This is a copy of an essay that I published in 2006. I made some minor revisions to remove outdated context.) Overheard at breakfast ...

I just read a review in Science of Douglas Futuyma’s new book How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals About Their Origin, Lives, and Diversi...

This post is mostly about a recent paper published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & Biomed Sci where two philosophers pre...

Charles Darwin , the greatest scientist who ever lived, was born on this day in 1809 [ Darwin still spurs tributes, debates ] [ Happy Darwin...

The term "Function Wars" refers to the debate over the meaning of 'function,' especially in the context of junk DNA. 1 Th...

The Three Domain Hypothesis died about twenty years ago but most people didn't notice. The original idea was promoted by Carl Woese an...

Citrate synthase [ EC 2.3.3.1 ] is one of the key enzymes of the citric acid cycle. It catalyzes the joining of acetyl-CoA and oxaloacetate ...

De novo genes are new genes that arise spontaneously from junk DNA [ De novo gene birth ]. The frequency of de novo gene creation is impo...