Skeptophilia

There's an interesting idea from evolutionary theory called the cui bono principle . Cui bono?  is Latin for "who benefits?"  ...

One of the most common misconceptions about evolution is that it is goal-oriented. You hear it all the time.  Giraffes evolved longer necks ...

One of the more puzzling aspects of evolutionary theory is the phenomenon of peripheral isolates . This term refers to widely-separated popu...

The environmentalists tell us "extinction is forever," and that certainly seems unarguable.  Once a species is lost, evolution wil...

From the One Thing Leads To Another department, we have: a cute little fuzzy mammal from Madagascar, some thoughts about genetic drift, and ...

Next to the purely religious arguments -- those that boil down to "it's in the Bible, so I believe it" -- the most common obje...

Whenever we have a wet summer -- not an uncommon occurrence in our rainy climate -- we have a plague of little pests trying to get into our ...

One of the most fascinating features of biological evolution -- particularly as it applies to the possibility of life on other planets -- ha...

George Wynn Brereton Huntingford was a British anthropologist, linguist, and historian, who traveled widely and was famed for his perceptiv...