A second wave of creationists are making trouble, following Christian creationists (who are not done, but seems to be get less media attenti...

Why are two breeds of dogs who can't mate without human assistance the same species, while two fish species, which can and do have ferti...

Interesting little commentary on how (not) to do a résumé: Final Cut: Words to Strike from Your Resume . I don't have a résumé, 'cau...

Limits free us? Do we need constraints to create ? "We break out of the box by stepping into shackles." On a related note, in How ...

It's not just a hypothetical question. It is a hypothetical question, but not just. See what I mean? Isn't that annoying? Yes or no?...

It may just be me and the people I follow, but isn't Google+ used more for serious stuff that people want others to see, while Facebook...

I had sworn that I would find time during my postdoc to blog as much as during my PhD. But I was wrong. So, for the first time ever on Pleio...

So, despite voicing concerns that the Carnival of Evolution is in a slump , it was posted on time yesterday, and contains 26 posts . Which i...

What's up? Seems to me the number of submissions to Carnival of Evolution is not. This summer we had one edition with 60+ submissions,...

It's *almost* hard to tell whether this republican science adviser is for real or not. The giveaway is of course that republicans don...

For Christie, who writes so eloquently about the pain of loss of loved ones . I lie flattened, like the weight of his words has literally cr...

Francisco Ayala is donating $10 million to the School of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine - money earned from his vineyard. The Templeton P...

Without questions, this is the most horrific video I've watched in my entire life. You might not want to see it, but everyone should kno...

Lately I have been reading a bunch of papers. I'm teaching a seminar course on evolutionary dynamics, taking a seminar course on multidi...

Artificial Life 13 The Thirteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems “Evolution in Action” July 19–2...

The anti-Wall Street protests going on in the states and elsewhere(!) have a website . There you can find your local Occupy Together group -...

The 40th Carnival of Evolution is up today at Kevin Zelnio's blog, EvoEcoLab at Scientific American. Next month it will be over at Eco...

As a first for me, I have been accepted as a member of the editorial board of the new journal Frontiers in Genetics . I'm very excited a...

Clearly, I'd say, love has some evolutionary significance. Why do we love each other? Evolutionary adaptive reasons seem quite convincin...

When I was a child, I once watched an animated kid's program about a family where the youngest of two children turned out to be retarded...