Skeptophilia

One consistent misapprehension a lot of people have about evolution is that the process of natural selection always leads toward organisms b...

We've had both our dogs DNA tested -- purely for our own entertainment, not because we have any concern about "pure breeding" ...

One of the best explanations of how modern evolutionary genomics is done is in the fourth chapter of Richard Dawkins's fantastic  The An...

Every once in a while, I'll run across a piece of scientific research that is so creative and clever that it just warms my heart, and I ...

I'm a birdwatcher, which in my specific case kind of crosses the line into a mild mental illness.  I've traveled all over the world ...

One of my favorite lectures in my AP Biology class was about how there's no such thing as a reptile. If you took your last biology cla...

Over my nearly thirty years of teaching AP Biology, one of the topics that changed the most was taxonomy. This might come as a surprise, g...

One of the things I find endlessly fascinating about evolution is that we can use information we have in the present to infer what happened ...

I am the proud owner of two dogs, both rescues, who are at this point basically members of the family whose contributions to the household c...

Sometimes I see a piece of scientific research that is so brilliant, so elegant, all I can do is sit back in awestruck appreciation. Such ...