December 2012's selection of notable quotes
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
Researchers estimate annual investment needed to conserve habitats and save the world’s most at-risk species.
Psychologists and economists identify key aspects in work and life to achieve optimal wellbeing.
Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in 2002, has issued a warning to a subset of his psychologist colleagues, telling them to increase the reproducibility of their research.
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.