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I'm curious about whether Intelligent Design Creationists still think their prediction about junk DNA has been confirmed. Here's wh...

I'm going to London next November to attend The Royal Society conference on New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophica...

If you knew the complete genome sequence of someone could you tell where they came from and their ethnic background (race)? The answer is co...

I'm working on a review of "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. It raises a huge number of issues about science writing and the...

A recent editorial in the magazine New Scientist caught my eye. The title is "Long Live Evolution" and it offers support for &quo...

My colleague, Ben Blencowe, just published a paper ... Sharma, E., Sterne-Weiler, T., O’Hanlon, D., and Blencowe, B.J. (2016) Global Mapp...

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. If you haven't listened to "Storm" then you are in for a treat because ...

I'm on sabbatical this term, working on a possible book whose working title is "What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is j...

We all know that the purpose of education should be to teach students how to think critically. We're not doing a very good job. Take bio...

The Enclyopedia of Evolutionary Biology is a four volume set of articles by leading evolutionary biologists. An online version is available...

Otangelo Grasso just posted another one of his screeds. This time it's on photosynthesis . All of his "essays' conform to the s...

Monday, April 11, 2016 My DNA ancestry I sent a DNA sample off to ancestry.com a few weeks ago and here are the results. Monday, Novem...

Ancestry.com (ancestry.ca) has this neat feature where they combine all their family trees into a big "One World" tree. If you kno...

There's a group of biologists who think that the current version of evolutionary theory is insufficient. They want to create an extended...

By now, we all know that a "theory" in science is much more than idle speculation, a point that has been made repeatedly over the ...