Skeptophilia

I remember running into the idea of changing trends in name popularity when I saw a New Yorker  comic back in the seventies.  It showed a ty...

The evolutionary model is one of the most powerful explanatory devices in biology.  It has led to discoveries that simply blow the mind -- s...

As you might expect from someone who is passionately interested in both genealogy and evolutionary genetics, when there's a study that c...

Last year, I did a 23 and Me  DNA test. Besides the not-particularly-earthshattering conclusion that I'm mostly French, Scottish, Germ...