Skeptophilia

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

You probably recall from biology class the word symbiosis  -- when two organisms share living space.  This sort of relationship can result i...

Back in December, I completely skeeved out some of my readers with a discussion of parasites , more specifically the protist Toxoplasma gond...

One of the things that even folks conversant in the evolutionary model sometimes don't know is the extent to which we are composite orga...