I seriously have trouble believing this. Can anybody shed some light? It's from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Wikipedia on...

What is the origin of new genes? In order to do new stuff, new genes are needed. Where do they come from, then? Horizontal gene transfer (...

David Morrison just hosted Carnival f Evolution #52 , and now he has written a post with lots of statistics of CoE: The network history of t...

Here we go again with the new articles on evolution. This is just a very small sample that I chose out of interest from the last couple of ...

Yesterday I went to the annual Thomas S Whittam Memorial Lecture here at MSU. Howard Ochman talked about "Evolutionary Forces Affecti...

I'm reading a book chapter by Peter Stadler from 2002 called Landscapes and Effective Fitness [1]. It has this absolutely gorgeous figur...

Bjørn's two rules of being a good speaker: Love the words that you speak Always have something to say An engaged speaker is more en...

[The following is a post written for BEACON .] What is epistasis? Epistasis is a measure of the strength of epistatic interactions. Epist...

Did I fool you for a moment?

How often do you go "shiiiiiiiiiiit, so that's how it is!?!" What would really shock you? "FUCK! I never thought that wou...

These are the new papers for the last couple of weeks that I would like to read but will probably never get to. Gone are the days of the pol...

A new wealth of articles by the ENCODE (the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) consortium suggest that far more of the human genome carries out ...

The 51st edition of Carnival of Evolution is up at The Stochastic Scientist: Darwin's Restaurant . There's something on the menu for...

There must be lots of people out there on the interwebz with questions about evolution. People are evidently very interested, whether they ...

Here's pickings from the last month of new papers in evolution. Those are just the ones that popped out at me in the tocs, but there are...

For the love of references! If the submitted posts didn't all have references for support, they do now, because host of the 50th CoE ...

With his "holey adaptive landscapes", Sergey Gavrilets (e.g. 1997) solved the problem of crossing valleys of low fitness in the fi...

The 13th conference on Artificial Life is going on right now at Michigan State University. Follow tweets at #alife13 , and see program her...

Why is there something rather than nothing? Pick your favorite reason among Michael Shermer's picks  in Nothing is Negligible: Why The...

Some like to define living organisms as that which 1) reproduces, 2) has inheritance, and 3) has variation. In other words, living th...