Category: Evolution
“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published
The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises.
Evolution Can’t Explain Sexual Modesty; Why Not?
Darwinism is supposed to be a universal theory about biological diversity advancing through reproduction. Could such a basic observation be beyond its scope?
Privacy in Human Intimacy Isn’t About Evolution
We transcend the strictly material forces that spur natural selection. We, alone in the known universe, are moral beings.
Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums
It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim.
Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest
The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.”