Sandwalk

I was very upset when Vincent Torley suggested that I attributed all of the evolution of chimpanzees and humans to the fixation of nearly ne...

A couple of years ago I posted an article on How Did the Zebra Get Its Stripes? . I pointed out that this wasn't a Rudyard Kipling sto...

Although all types of creationists are anti-science to some degree, 1 the Intelligent Design Creationists are unusual because they don'...

Apparently there are some creationists who are slightly embarrassed that they don't understand evolution. First, there was Vincent Torle...

I know I've said this before, but I continue to be astonished at the ignorance of creationists. Those who oppose evolution most vehement...

Last week's molecule [ Monday's Molecule #234 ] was insect juvenile hormone. The winners are Frank Schmidt and Raul Félix de Sousa ...

God's not dead is a movie that's gaining some notoriety in the USA. Here's a synopsis ... Present-day college freshman and dev...

Yesterday afternoon I attended a forum on Science and Mathematics teaching in Ontario schools. It was put on by The Centre for Science, Math...

The Canadian Secular Alliance is hosting a talk by Lauren Forbes tomorrow evening in rm 4171 of the Medical Sciences Building at the Univers...

I stole this from Ms. Sandwalk's blog. I'm pretty sure she'll mind.

Several students in my class decided to write essays on epigenetics. This was very brave of them since nobody seems to have a good definitio...

Last week's molecules [ Monday's Molecule #233 ] were oxaloacetate, ethanol, lactate, alanine, and acetyl-CoA. All of them can be sy...

Today is the 40th anniversary of my Ph.D. oral defense. 1 The event took place in the Department of Biochemical Sciences at Princeton Unive...

Last month I explained how the difference in DNA sequence between chimps and humans corresponds to what we would predict from evolutionary t...

The genomes of chimpanzees and bonobos are remarkably similar to the human genome. In terms of sequence similarity, they are more than 98% i...