When one gene comes under a new selection pressure, a population can respond by increasing the frequency of the better alleles. This can inv...

Some times very technical papers are published that would be very good for me to read. Papers that on title don't look very sexy (to me)...

BEACON has a booth at Evolution 2012 in Ottawa, and they have invited me to put up a poster about Carnival of Evolution. Here's a dra...

The fact that  Hu Jintao  refuses to talk to the Danish press as he visits Denmark next week. Apparently he never has in China either, in t...

This is only a fraction of the new papers on research in evolutionary biology from the last week or so. How many creationist papers have bee...

I've been chosen for the Kreativ Blogger award chain letter*. I'll play along. Rules: link to the blog who nominated you, say sev...

The June edition of Carnival of Evolution is now live on Pharyngula: Carnival of Evolution #48: The Icelandic Saga! There are nearly 50 po...

Wondering, with all the time in the world, would we even do all the things we say we would if we had all the time in the world? How does t...

In the game of Hearts , the object is to not get certain cards. The most vile of them all is the dreaded black queen of spades, which is ...

The CoE blogger thinks Carnival of Evolution is evolving . Doofus! There's no population, no real inheritance, and not even a genetic co...

Yet more papers from the ToCs that I'd like to live longer to read. Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary ris...

I have just been alerted to Eigenfactor - a new measure of how influential scientific journals are. A one-page article in PNAS discusses it...

47th Carnival of Evolution has been posted on Evolving thoughts . All the evolution news that fit to blog includes this interesting post on ...

Last weeks interesting papers on evolution: Adaptive evolution of facial colour patterns in Neotropical primates Selection in a fluctuati...

More papers published this week about evolution: The Evolution of an Enigmatic Human Trait: False Beliefs due to Pseudo-Solution Traps. S...

As a new feature mostly intended for my own benefit, I will start posting titles of new papers that I come across in the ToCs that I get ema...

What's this nonsense I hear that correlation doesn't imply causation ? Of course it does. If there is correlation between two variab...

Carnival of Evolution #46 has been posted. This time, in addition to the posts, we get to learn about different trees used in evolutionary ...

Pseudogenes are genes that used to have a function, but no longer do. If a gene contributes to an important function for the organism, offsp...

Adrian Thysse has done something new. He has slaved through all 45+ submissions to this month's edition of Carnival of Evolution (which,...