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IT…HAS…ARRIVED!
The long awaited, much delayed eighth edition of the Carnival of Evolution is here.
I won’t go into the excuses, other than to say that one of them was the death of my grandfather – a man whose love of [...]

In the past month… (top 6 in entertainment value)
“im a man in panties”
“Sarah Palin is a idoit”
“end of human race dna replication”
“truckpulling black widow”
“preparing for world war iii”
“i’m not even sure we exist same level of consciousness”
I have no idea how most of those came to me.
Really…

I’ve decided to start a weekly series highlighting interesting, strange, or just plain cool evolutionary adaptations. If any of you have suggestions for adaptations that you find particularly interesting, I would be happy to include them.
I’m gonna start off with a species that is dear to my heart, the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). Back in [...]

Well, it’s official: Science Online ’09 is sadly over.
I don’t even know where to begin in summarizing this truly wonderful, enlightening, and inspiring experience. For those of you who are unaware of Science Online ’09 (at Sigma Xi in Research Triangle Park, NC), it is an annual conference (an “unconference”) devoted to the world of [...]

One thing natural selection is powerless against is selecting for or against anything in an organism post-reproduction. Hence, our bodies are fairly impotent when it comes to fighting cancer (with many exceptions, of course). The mechanisms of evolution are simply blind to most cancers.
It is for this reason that I must delay today’s edition of [...]