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

The neutral theory was first proposed by Mootoo Kimura in 1968 (Kimura, 1968). The following year, a similar idea was published in a semina...

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

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 I made some minor revisions to remove outdated context.)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

Can natural selection occur by chance or accident? No, with qualifications. Can evolution occur by chance or accident? Yes, definitely. ...

This is a video published a few weeks ago where Jon Perry interviews Richard Dawkins. Jon Perry is the author of animations posted on his we...

The Modern Synthesis is the version of evolutionary theory popularized by Julian Huxley and supported by the leading evolutionary biologists...

James A. Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago (Chicago, USA). He mad...

Denis Noble was a Professor of Physiology at Oxford University in the United Kingdom until he retired. He had a distinguished career as a ph...

Rama Singh, 1 a biology professor at McMaster Universtiy in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) has just published an interesting article on The Con...

I just received an invitation to a meeting ... On behalf of the international organizing committee, we would like to invite you to a conf...

The latest issue of New Scientist has a number of articles on evolution. All of them are focused on extending and improving the current the...

New Scientist has devoted much of their September 26th issue to evolution, but not in a good way. Their emphasis is on 13 ways that we must...

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

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...

I'm a big fan of Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) and of Zachary Blount's work in particular. [ Strolling ...

Evolution by Accident v1.43 ©2006 Laurence A. Moran This essay has been transferred here from an old server that has been decommissioned. ...

This the last of a series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Arlin has established ...

This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post...

This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post...