Biology

Evolutionary psychology reflects Western media ideas.

Did the Chicxulub impact cause iridium layers or wipe out the dinosaurs, or are there problems with this idea, or did human hunting or the Ice Age kill them

When this jellyfish starts to grow old—it just makes itself young again. And again.

What do genetics and morphology reveal about how many created kinds of bats there originally were?

This ‘beneficial mutation’ is also linked to auto-immune diseases.

Engineers could copy this design for use in micro-robots.

An anomalous ape fossil found in South America in rocks labelled Paleogene raises questions of how it got there.

Noah was Y Chromosome Adam, but placing the Patriarchs on the Y tree is difficult when many alternate hypotheses exist

John Sanford, inventor of gene gun, says genetic entropy makes evolution impossible

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sickle-cell anaemia results from a mutation that breaks hemoglobin, but that can be an advantage in resisting malaria.

A review of Fire-Maker by Michael Denton.

Tokay gecko toes and feet utilize van der Walls forces in setae and spatula to walk on vertical surfaces.

A long-term study on the water flea, Daphnia pulex, contradicts thousands of papers on natural selection that ignored environmental variation.

A woolly mammoth population went through a bottleneck of eight, the same as people on the Ark, without mutational meltdown

Is unguided evolution a reasonable explanation for the complex human brain? Join Dr. Dianne Grocott for a discussion on brain origins and the case for design.