This year, the term pleiotropy was defined 100 years ago, and Frank Stearns, graduate student at the University of Maryland biology graduat...

His name is Enézio Eugênio de Almeida Filho, and he is a post-Darwinist. He predicts that evolutionary theory will soon meet its demise, fol...

Seems to me Madhusudan is onto something here: Let me get this straight: we have MORE students enrolling in college, competing to get into ...

Don't dare to miss Ricky Gervais' reasons for being an atheist . I seriously wonder if this stuff is funny for believers, too. But a...

Being from Denmark myself, this Danish study caught my eye. It examines what is apparently an urban legend (they call it urban myth, though)...

An article in The Washington Post describes how Felisa Wolfe-Simon and the team behind the work on arsenic-loving bacteria pushed by NASA a...

According to Darryl Cunningham we've got a major problem: Of course, this isn't merely according to Darryl Cunningham, but rather ac...

Man, I cry for the North Korean people. I look forward to the death of Kim Jong-il, and to the events that will follow (hoping they're n...

Dan Graur reviews Frozen Evolution: Or, That's not the Way It Is, Mr. Darwin: A Farewell to Selfish Gene by Jaroslav Flegr in The Quar...

For the record, you and I can't be friends if you crush animals for pleasure . It's Julia Galef on Rationally Speaking discussing w...

It's really rare that I squirm so much that I have to stop watching something. Here's an alligator attacking an electric eel, and th...

I get mail Category: Kooks Posted on: December 7, 2010 4:52 PM, by PZ Myers Some people just don't get it. Christopher Maloney wants to ...

This is too funny to be believed, and yet it is not The Onion. Egyptian Official: Israel Could Be Behind Deadly Shark Attack An Egyptian off...

Daniel Prothero, author of one of the best yet most neglected book about evolution for the general public, Evolution: What the Fossils Say a...

The thirtieth edition is hosted by Bob O'Hara on This Scientific Life . Enjoy! And spread the word. Here's my favorite post ...

Feast your eyes on this beauty! Arc Encounter They are actually going to build the arc. Right next to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, of co...

That is the question* posed at this ASU Origins debate that I found my way to via Rationally Speaking I was referred to this debate in whic...

Hitchens debated Blair , and then he wrote about it in the Washington Post : As for religious charity and good works, this is not even a bad...

Some days I think stochasticity is an important phenomenon in evolution, and some days I don't.

Oh.. dear, I'm becoming one of those annoying obsessed types - with the peacock tail. For the I don't know what time, someone is sta...