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June 11, 2012

Biology, Genetics, and Political Behavior

<em>Political Psychology</em> features a special issue on Biology, Genetics, and Behavior

April 11, 2012

Taking a Micro-look at Coral Relationships

Corals grow in shapes specific to their surroundings, but this plasticity often masks evolutionary relationships. One must look closer...Sahale Casebolt, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, is comparing micro-features of fossil and modern corals with their DNA sequences to reveal evolutionary relationships.

November 29, 2012

Humans Have Been Evolving Like Crazy Over the Past Few Thousand Years

the genetic diversity in the human population has exploded.

November 19, 2012

Body Politic

Research continues apace on the genetics of political behavior

February 4, 2013

Darwin’s Birds Get New Look

The new work supports Darwin’s original claim that all pigeon breeds descend from the rock pigeon.

July 11, 2016

When the Strong Outbreed the Weak: An Interview with William Muir

Muir’s experiments reveal a tremendous naiveté in the idea that creating a good society is merely a matter of selecting the “best” individuals. A good society requires members working together to create what cannot be produced alone, or at least to refrain from exploiting each other.

August 22, 2017

We Are Not Hard-Wired

Genetics and environment are inextricably intertwined. There is no organism without a genome, but there is also no such thing as an organism without an environment.

April 6, 2018

The Mathematics of Kindness

Altruistic behavior seems abundant in nature, but how did it evolve? George Price had the answer nearly fifty years ago.

August 23, 2017

Evolution Makes Us Flexible Because Life Is Unpredictable

A genome that can respond to environmental feedback and operate in many possible, unpredictable conditions would be even more likely to survive and reproduce than a rigid one.

November 1, 2016

When Evolutionists Acquire Superhuman Powers: A Conversation with Peter and Rosemary Grant

Two developments helped Peter and Rosemary Grant to peer into the genomes of finches. The first was the invention of tools to measure microsatellite DNA. With more than a dozen genetic loci they were able to characterize each finch with a unique DNA signature.