| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Science News
May 9, 2009 |
Letters / Science News Lamarck overshadowed by Darwin.   |
Geotimes
September 2007
Ari Hartmann |
Rapid Evolution in Early Trilobites Fueled by High Variation Trilobites were even more ubiquitous on the Cambrian seafloor than they are now in museum gift shops. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2015
Vicki Marshall |
The vital question: why is life the way it is? Despite saying the book is for the general reader, The vital question is not written as a typical popular science book. It is perhaps aimed at an audience engaged with biochemistry research. |
Bio-IT World
February 11, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Bioinformatics on the Brain Adaptive selection: accelerated mutation rate produced humans' large brain. |
Technology Research News
May 21, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Simulated evolution gets complex Researchers from Michigan State University have used software to prove Charles Darwin's postulation that small, seemingly inconsequential changes over thousands of generations can result in the evolution of complex functions. |
Salon.com
January 14, 2002
John Glassie |
E.O. Wilson The great scientist and conservationist explains the terrorism we insist on overlooking. And space colonies won't help, either... |
Smithsonian
December 2005
Frank J. Sulloway |
The Evolution of Charles Darwin A creationist when he visited the Galapagos Islands, the great naturalist grasped the full significance of the unique wildlife he found there only well after he had returned to London. |
Scientific American
February 2006
Michael Shermer |
It's Dogged as Does It Retracing Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos shatters a myth but reveals how revolutions in science actually evolve |
Technology Research News
June 4, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Artificial beings evolve realistically Researchers from Michigan State University, Cal Tech, and the University of California at Los Angeles have found a way to use software to more closely mimic the way real organisms evolve, and have used the model to uncover a long-standing secret of natural selection. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Being More Infantile May Have Led to Bigger Brains Genetic evidence suggests that juvenile traits helped separate chimps from us |
Scientific American
December 19, 2005 |
Lean Gene Machine An ocean bacterium has the most streamlined genome: P. ubique apparently has traded potential for economy in a big way, making its genome the equivalent of a fuel-stingy Volkswagen Beetle, whereas human DNA is more akin to a gas-guzzling Hummer pulling an RV trailer plus a boat. |
Fast Company
November 1999
Harriet Rubin |
Only the Paranoid Survive Forget Andy Grove's famous saying about the power of paranoia. Neo-Darwinist Helena Cronin says that competition today favors the generous. |
Inc.
March 2006
Donna Fenn |
The Latest Boardroom Darwinism Charles Darwin's ideas about survival of the fittest and natural selection have become the management metaphors of the moment. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Bergstrom & Lipsitch |
Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease. |
Salon.com
June 6, 2001
Amol Sarva |
Survival of the losers Even Charles Darwin couldn't have predicted who would emerge from the Web's evolutionary shakeout... |
Geotimes
September 2005 |
Geomedia Straight From the Source: Q&A with Author Sean B. Carroll... Book Reviews: The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey by Chris Beard... etc. |
Outside
August 2007
Jon Cohen |
Zonkeys Are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal Napoleon Dynamite was on to something. Hybrid creatures like pizzlies, blynxes, and bonanzees are beautiful and cool, and they're forcing evolutionary scientists to rethink the web of life. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Jen Phillips |
Species Explosion What happens when you mix evolution with climate change? |
Chemistry World
December 3, 2012
Laura Howes |
Antimalarials should target female parasites The Plasmodium parasite, unlike humans, for example, does not have different genes coding for different sexes. New antimalarials should target the slower evolving female genes, or those that are expressed by both sexes. |
Fast Company
June 2008
Michael Shermer |
Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems A new science called evolutionary economics offers fresh insights into how the business landscape isn't controlled from the top. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Sally Lehrman |
The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge. |
Scientific American
March 2006
Jonathan Weiner |
From Surmise to Sunrise Book Reviews: From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin, Edited by Edward O. Wilson... Darwin: The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea, Edited, with commentary, by James D. Watson... Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral by David Dobbs... |
Wired
October 2004
Evan Ratliff |
The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms. |
D-Lib
March 2004
Bonnie Wilson |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2004: Cosmic Evolution The Cosmic Evolution site uses text, images and movies to trace the evolution of the Universe from its origin through seven epochs (Particulate, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Cultural) as well as an eighth, Future Epoch, that includes Chaisson's ideas on the future prospects for human life and for alien life elsewhere in the Universe |
Salon.com
February 28, 2001
Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory... |
Science News
January 31, 2009
Elizabeth Quill |
Book Review: Freaks Of Nature - What Anomalies Tell Us About Development And Evolution By Mark S. Blumberg A professor of psychology and editor in chief of Behavioral Neuroscience, argues that scientists haven't given nature's oddities enough attention. |
InsideFlyer
January 2008 |
Theory of Evolution When Darwin posed that complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors, little did he know that he was also forecasting the evolution of frequent flyer programs. |
Fast Company
January 2002
Seth Godin |
Survival Is Not Enough Hey, it's a jungle out there! So if you want to win, do more than embrace change -- learn how to evolve... |
Salon.com
May 24, 2002
Andrew Brown |
A scientist for the rest of us Whether infuriating sociobiologists or enchanting readers, Stephen Jay Gould liked messes and knew how to make hard thought look like fun. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Pyrite Fossil Preservation In the Yunnan Province of China, paleobiologists have found evidence for exactly how certain fossils were preserved in the Early Cambrian, around 525 million years ago. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Kendalll Powell |
Jeffrey Kieft: Inspired to Serve In addition to running his University of Colorado lab, he engages church groups on the theory of evolution. He's driven to advocate for science. |
Salon.com
February 13, 2002
Amol Sarva |
Evolution, Enron-style Not all fast-mutating organisms flourish, contrary to what Seth Godin implies in his new book, "Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company." Some go extinct... |
Outside
September 2006
Bruce Barcott |
The Evolution Revolution Our greatest science writers take on intelligent design in books that explore the theories of Charles Darwin and the 21st-century consequences of not believing |
Geotimes
October 2006
Stephen Godfrey |
Moving Past Creationist Roots All those who are called to scientific enterprise should pursue that calling without fear or doubt, but rather with joy and enthusiasm. In the end, religion and science do not represent universal opposites. |
Wired
December 2000
Jaron Lanier |
One-Half of a Manifesto Why stupid software will save the future from neo-Darwinian machines... |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Dave Mosher |
A New PACE for Laboratory Evolution Researchers have found a way to accelerate evolution of molecules by harnessing viruses. |
Salon.com
October 28, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Data-mining life on earth Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web. |
Scientific American
October 2007
Michael Shermer |
The Really Hard Science To be of true service to humanity, science must be an exquisite blend of data, theory and narrative. |
CIO
December 15, 2003
Michael Fitzgerald |
Smart Systems - 2010 The process of evolution provides models for dealing with the complexity of advanced IT systems. You could think of studying the development of species over time -- or building models that replicate natural selection -- as a giant Google search for the species that thrives rather than falters. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Megan Sever |
Reworking the Cambrian Explosion Trilobite diversification during the Cambrian is thought to exemplify the explosion of animals and plants. New research suggests, however, that the trilobites diversified much earlier, thus calling into question the theory and possible dates of a biological big bang caused by tectonic movement. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Laura Stafford |
Rare 3-D Fossil Preservation A new fossil locality in southern China is giving paleontologists a more detailed look at the early body plans of Ediacara organisms. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Geomedia Museums: Darwin's Life and Work on Exhibit... Books: Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery... Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle... |
Scientific American
August 2008
Keren Blankfeld Schultz |
Monogamy Is Responsible for the Evolution of Bees Researchers say they have the first clear evidence that supports kin selection, rather than group selection, in eusociality. |
Information Today
December 5, 2013 |
Frontiers Debuts New OA Journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution features research in evolutionary biology, ecosystem and systems ecology, macroecology, phylogenetics, and conservation. |
Bio-IT World
October 2005
Kevin Davies |
Monkey Business The impact of the chimpanzee genome is not confined to science. It offers an urgent reminder of the endangered status of many primate species. |
CIO
May 15, 2006
Jeremy Kirk |
IT Unlocks the Origin of Darwin's Theory The concept of variation - meaning differences within a species necessary for its survival as a whole - was first observed by John Stevens Henslow, who trained Darwin to observe variations between the species. |
Chemistry World
February 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates Aaron Ciechanover, who won the 2004 Nobel prize in chemistry with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, talks about Charles Darwin. |
Science News
January 31, 2009
Tom Siegfried |
Darwin's Natural Selection Redefined The Idea Of Design Charles Darwin is not around today to explain his views to critics who decry evolution on religious grounds. But among his voluminous writings are occasional passages that indicate how he might have answered if questions were posed to him today. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Sara Pratt |
Cool Cambrian triggers life A controversial hypothesis put forth by a team of German researchers says the Cambrian explosion -- the momentous increase in biodiversity 542 million years ago that spawned most modern animal groups -- was caused by life itself. |
Science News
May 20, 2006 |
Science Safari: Darwin and Evolution This online exhibit is a fascinating account of how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and how that theory is regarded today. |
