Skeptophilia

Although you don't tend to hear much about it, the Ordovician Period was a very peculiar time in Earth's history. From beginning (4...

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...

"If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" If there is one phrase that makes me want to throw a chair across the ...

One of the most curious features of evolutionary biology is the cui bono principle . Cui bono?  is Latin for "who benefits?" and i...

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

When I first became interested in paleontology, I think what came as the biggest surprise was how many lineages had become completely extinc...

One of the many things I find fascinating about the evolutionary model is how different lineages can happen on the same "solution"...

It's amazing how many attempts it took for primates to successfully colonize North America. There's only one primate species current...