First of all, you may have notied something a little different here. I am now a member of Field of Science, a new network of science blogs....

Charles Darwin turns 200 today. His birthday is the occasion for worldwide celebrations by scientists, and also a few protests by those w...

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

In my last post I asked how a society that evolves through its ideas would differ from one that evolves through its genes. Today I came acr...

For much of the history of life, evolution worked a certain way. Organisms competed for the chance to reproduce. An individual with an adv...

Why do attempted murderers get less jail time than murderers? Why is a drunken driver who hits a tree punished less than one who hits a per...

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