Study Suggests Natural Selection Conclusions May Be Incorrect

From ScienceDaily.com: "Our finding means that hundreds of published studies on natural selection may have drawn incorrect conclusions," said Masatoshi Nei, Penn State Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and the...

Superpredators: Evidence humans have sped up evolution process

Humans have long been supporters of the "bigger is better" theory. New evidence finds that the evolution process of the various species we hunt has been influenced by human behaviour and our unique tendency to...

What Every Organism Wants: Sexual Selection

Yes, the title is an indicative to capture your attention. And, since you'all seem so tired and perhaps stressed out, well, we are now in "officially" a recession. Perhaps, an economic depression is next, but not soon or may be never, I hope. So, I wanted to arouse your...

Tiktaalik, the Fish, Sheds New Clues on the Origin of Life and Land Mammals

For decades, scientists around the world have been on the relentless quest to ultimately research and solve the greatest mystery surrounding the origin of life. They have built, developed, and simulated many...

Human Evolution Has Stopped, Says Scientist

University College London Professor Steve Jones believes that human evolution has come to a head because the forces that drive evolution - natural selection and genetic mutation - no longer play important roles...

Synthesizing Chemical "Life" Forms

In 1953, chemist Stanley Miller sought out to create the earliest of organic compounds thought to be the precursors for life. Using a combination of synthetic lightning and a theoretical primordial atmosphere...

Does Natural Selection Drive The Evolution Of Cancer?

The dynamics of evolution are fully in play within the environment of a tumor (tumour), just as they are in forests and meadows, oceans and streams. This is the view of researchers in an emerging cross-disciplinary field that brings the thinking of ecologists and evolutionary...

Evolution's 'Driving Force' Shifts Based on Behavior, Study Says

From National Geographic News: Brown anole lizards on tiny islands in the Bahamas were enjoying the good life, untroubled by a lizard predator found on larger islands nearby.But all that changed when biologist...

'Darwin on Trial' by Phillip E. Johnson: 1st Edition Open Access Book + Video

Online open access/free first edition of Phillip E. Johnson's book 'Darwin on Trial' (2nd Edition: Amazon UK | US)Video: Watch (RealPlayer) Phillip Johnson's Address given at the University of California, Irvine, 1992 (running time 90 minutes approx) in which he discusses...

Keep Darwin's 'lies' out of Polish schools: education official

Warsaw, Poland (AFP) - Poland's deputy education minister called for the influential evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin not to be taught in the country's schools, branding them 'lies.' 'The theory of evolution is a lie, an error that we have legalised as a common truth,'...

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