Tag: Evolution

February 11, 2025

On This Darwin Day, What Does Evolution Mean To You?

Join the conversation about how evolutionary thinking can guide us in addressing today’s most pressing issues.

April 1, 2025

Evolution Won't Save Us: Why We All Need to Get Better At Making Group Decisions

If we want wiser outcomes, we must design environments that bring out the best in human nature.

April 25, 2024

An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson, Evolution Denier

How does an intelligent mind dismiss rock-solid evidence in one matter and embrace unreliable and fanciful reports in another?

September 14, 2012

The Search for the Origin of Life

Recent scientific efforts are bringing us closer to an understanding of the earliest life on Earth, and to the fielding of a theory that explains the dawn of our earliest ancestor.The cases of the earliest discovered evidences for life on Earth, if biological in origin, constrain the timing for the emergence of life to sometime before 3.4 billion years ago.

December 21, 2012

Defining Life

Life is more than the lucky product of a stew of elements; biology is more than complex chemistry.

May 2, 2014

The Future Looks Good For Citizen Science

Public participation in science, or citizen science, is finding a foothold in all branches of science.

July 3, 2014

Why Best Practices Don’t Spread

March 17, 2016

Should Evolution be Taught in Elementary School?

Nearly half of the U.S. population rejects evolution. Recent research suggests that teaching evolution to elementary aged children may help tip the scales.

November 15, 2016

Cooperation Trumps Selfishness in the Foundress's Dilemma

Aggressive queens may be the ‘winners’ within their groups, but purely cooperative groups outlast those containing aggressive queens.

January 12, 2017

Stored fat is a feat of evolution – and your body will fight to keep it

Finding it hard to lose weight? Here's why this may be.