This article in Nature Communications has this figure showing the phylogenetic relationship between "contemporary human populati...

There is a website I am ignoring. Sometimes the best action to take is to ignore. The organization and the man leading it want to influenc...

Professor Rick Relyea from the University of Pittsburgh gave a fascinating seminar today: "Phenotypic Plasticity: Stress-Induced Change...

Biology is littered with concepts that biologists cannot always agree on how to define or where there are special cases where the common d...

I just did a reddit Science AMA today, and whenever you talk about evolution, invariably the question of the origin of life comes up. It...

What do real fitness landscapes look like? Do they look more like the image on the left, a nearly-neutral holey fitness landscape, or the on...

Important update April 22nd, 2014 : I have been corrected on the usage of the phrases "believe in" and "believe that". I...

The debate tonight between Bill Nye and Ken Ham was won by Nye hands down. Hands up. Take a look at this lovely slide: That is a fant...

In just two days Bill Nye and Ken Ham are having a public debate in Kentucky over evolution vs. creationism. The question to be debated is “...

WTF?! A spam email advertisement for spam! Here's an unsolicited email I've just received offering bulk email solutions. I hope this...

post reply IamAn evolutionary biologist. AMA! from  NorrisChuck  via  /r/IAmA/  sent  4 days  ago Who is more evolved? White...

Sewall Wright lived to be 98. Two months before he died he published a paper in The American Naturalist titled Surfaces of Selective Valu...

Click to enlarge.

Here are two new books on evolution. I wrote chapters for both :o Predicting Evolution and Visualizing High-Dimensional Fitness La...

This brochure from The Watchtower was sent to me by a reddit user, who in turn received it from a friend who believes God chose this place f...

Here are a couple of maps of different landscapes I just made today. The top landscapes are "smooth" and the bottom ones is "...