You get what you select for. This is a lesson I have learnt in a lab where we run computer simulations of evolutionary processes. If you sel...

How about spending a year observing capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica? Sounds like a dream job to me. You even get to pick up their poo for ana...

Ever wonder what the creationists' next move will be? The National Center for Science Education might know, and if so, this talk by Euge...

What is the Day of Silence ®? The Day of Silence, a project of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), is a student-led day...

Here's the number of Pleiotropy pageviews per day for the last nine days: 94, 157, 98, 74, 63, 8073, 2658, 837, 713. For the last few mo...

In his ironclad sarcasm, Edward Current is maddingly close to portraying how many creationists actually argue. Deeply ignorant of evolution...

I'm on vacation in Denmark, and I don't have the usual continuous internet connection. Until I do, blogging will be an infrequent re...

Here's new God proof. I am not sure whether Grad Student Tim Bowling is serious, but either way I think his proof deserves attention (i...

Inaugural edition of Scientia Pro Publica , The Science Blog Carnival, is up at GrrlScientist . This effectively takes over from The Tangled...

From the LOLCat Bible Translation Project : Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.

A new edition of Carnival of Evolution went up April 1st on The Oyster's Garter . I completely forgot to submit anything to it this time...

I have a serious case of pz envy . PZ wants to get into the OED .

Another dentist comes out as an expert on evolutionary theory. Dr. Jobe Martin has produced a set of DVDs, pushed by the AFA , with what s...

A small team of evolutionary ecologists from Tuebingen, Germany, just finished a rock music clip about evolution which is called "Stru...

Sighs. Several of them. Kevin Padian , paleontologist and defender of evolution at Dover, has a review in PLoS Biology of Jerry Coyne '...

A society so strange it changes what it means to be human. A culture so foreign that the ways which we know ourselves are altered. I no lon...

It's easy to see through these guys. They are pretending to be creationists, firing off utterly ridiculous arguments against evolution. ...

Eminent science writer Carl Zimmer has written a series of essays about the often surprising and embarrassingly revealing features of our mi...

I think I'm on to something. PZ Myers , who authors one of the most popular science blogs, Pharyngula , is a contentious figure at the f...

What's happening to James Bond? I have just watched Quantum of Solace , and was decently entertained. But then when I thought about it a...