A committee in the Indiana state legislature OKs a bill aimed at getting creationism into public school science classes.
A committee in the Indiana state legislature OKs a bill aimed at getting creationism into public school science classes.
Populations of organisms acquire beneficial traits repeatedly and rapidly through co-evolution with other species and through gene interaction.
Using an artificial selection paradigm, researchers watch as unicellular yeast evolve into snowflake-like clusters with distinct multicellular characteristics.
An incurable form of tuberculosis has turned up on the subcontinent.
Brain imaging and gene analyses in twins reveal that white matter integrity is linked to an iron homeostasis gene.
For at least one species of octopus, all it takes is a little RNA editing.
Our Dying Planet, Here Be Dragons, Rat Island, Harnessed
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario. Age: 34
Should we rethink the parallel drawn between “slave-making” ants and human slavery, and other such oversimplifications of animal behavior?