Here's a report about research into the mechanism of the hammerhead shark's incredible sense of smell. It is said that hammerheads c...

Where do we get our morals from? That's a contentious question asked and tried answered somewhere on the web I bet almost every day. Per...

Phytoplankton is responsible for about half of the total amount of oxygen produced by all plant life. That would make a 1% yearly reduction...

People are so scared of science, man. I think a huge part of the population even in well-educated countries don't trust the scientists v...

Today, Catalonia has banned bullfighting . Culture, tradition, and great fun at the expense of the pain and death of sentient beings have lo...

I'm giving my PhD defense tomorrow, July 28th, so no time to blog. Here's a cool video of bat skulls evolving to specialize to diffe...

Image Source It's the eternal questions of correlation and causality. Is my home country of Denmark so prosperous and peaceful because i...

Oh boy! If you're thinking about landing a tenure track job or similar in ecology or evolutionary biology, here's a kicker for you. ...

Here's another study that's going to get creationist arms in the air . It shows a function for some "junk DNA" - DNA that ...

Let me start by sharing just how much of an opinionated bastard I am. I was conceived out of wedlock, so I am truly a bastard. I treasure th...

Not only is Hans Rosling one of the very best speakers on TED, he has also, appropriately just changed my mind. He has just convinced me tha...

Now also blogging at Opinionated Bastards .

I am working on improving a manuscript that I just got back from review. Here's a few nuggets with my replies (no, they won't be sen...

As occasional readers here may have noticed, I'm looking for a job. A postdoc kind. Here's a line from an advertisement I've jus...

Whatever else you might think about the study and how the Korean authors presented their results of a gene knock-out experiment in mice, you...

Just a super-quick note about an interesting paper in the newest edition of Journal of Theoretical Biology: " Using creation science to...

Not my kind of model, really. Warning! For those who thought this was about fashion: it ain't. I have a model of speciation that I have ...

I have never been able to get the widget highlighting recent comments to work, which is a damn shame. Three posts from the past that I keep ...

Donald Prothero* joins the long list of people who have read and reviewed What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmari...

Ed Yong's meme about getting readers to say something about themselves is spreading. Now it's here. Also on The Loom and Evolving ...