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Intelligent Design Creationists are still trying to promote their views. They consistently claim to have positive evidence of intelligent de...

The frequency of blood type O is very high in some populations of native Americans. In many North American tribes, for example, the frequenc...

The lead editorial in last week's issue of Nature (Dec. 8, 2016) urges us to Take the time and effort to correct misinformation . The a...

ENCODE 1 published the results of a pilot project in 2007 (Birney et al., 2007). They looked at 1% (30Mb) of the genome with a view to esta...

A reader pointed me to the ThermoFisher Scientific website. ThermoFisher Scientific is a major supply of scientific equipment and supplies. ...

It's been twenty years since Michael Behe published Darwin's Black Box and Intelligent Design Creationists are flagellating themsel...

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is a collection of Humanist, atheist, secular and similar organizations from many countr...

We've been having a discussion about function and how to recognize it. This is important when it comes to determining how much junk is i...

The term "function wars" refers to debates over the meaning of the word "function" in biology. It refers specifically to...

Humans have about 25,000 genes. About 20,000 of these genes are protein-coding genes. 1 That means, of course, that humans make at least 20...

There weren't many science writers are the Royal Society meeting in London (UK) [ New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philos...

The recent meeting at the Royal Society in London was organized by The Royal Society (UK) and The British Academy. The theme of the meeting ...

Many evolutionary biologists are engaged in research that focuses on large organisms that are (presumably) adapting to a local environment. ...

Many science writers complain about the ability of scientists to explain their work to the general public. The latest example is from Susan ...

This is our first visit to Scotland. We rented an apartment in the top floor of this house in the middle of the city. It's a 20 minute w...