Last post , I used the example of a protest against peanut allergy-related procedures to explore how the American conception of "ri...

A new paper hit the internet today. " The Evolution of Eusociality " by Martin Nowak, Corina Tarnita, and E.O. Wilson re-frames a...

As a mathematical evolutionary theorist, I use abstract methods to investigate how the structure of an evolutionary process determines wheth...

Discovery News Top Stories: Manners Lowered Brits' Chances of Survival on Titanic , said my Gmail ad banner. Intrigued, I clicked the l...

First of all, a personal triumph: I've had my first academic paper accepted! "A New Phylogenetic Diversity Measure Generalizing the...

Based partly on the feedback from last column, I'd like to probe a bit deeper into the connection between altruism, evolution, and space...

The Boston University Physics Department hosted a very interesting talk yesterday by Robert Austin of Princeton. Austin has been studying ...

You and an acquaintance are charged (and rightfully so!) as co-conspirators in a train robbery. You are being interviewed separately by the ...