CategoryGenetics
The Neanderthal Story Is Still Evolving (Even If Nothing Else Is)
Their children of mixed heritage may have suffered from a genetic problem; also, what we can learn about Neanderthals from fossil footprints
Tales From the Neanderthal Nights: Why They Really Disappeared
A new paper offers an assessment that does not need the Neanderthal to be the subhuman whose disappearance is explained by evolution. Arithmetic will suffice
Geneticist James D. Watson (1928–2025): His Contradictory Legacy
Watson and Crick set the stage for what philosopher Stephen Meyer calls the God Hypothesis and yet Watson was a bigoted atheist and champion of pseudoscientific racism
Dogmatic Materialism Is a Damaging Attitude for Science
Richard Lewontin, a dogmatic materialist geneticist, seemed certain that epigenetics should be definitively rejected
Do Humans and Chimpanzees Differ by Only 1 Percent?
Of course not, but now that a more likely genetics figure has been published, some researchers are having a surprisingly hard time accepting it
Possible Breakthrough: Bee Gene Specifies Complex Hive Behavior
The researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors to modify or switch off the dsx gene in selected bees
RNA: The Text Message System Between Cells?
RNA is a very old way that cells encode information so cells across the domains of life can read messages encoded by other cells in RNA — for good or ill
How Will Media Address Growing Doubts About Darwin?
In the water flea study, the doubts sound as if they are coming from inside the house. One news story sheds light on a reporting strategy
Decade-Long Study: No Evidence Found for Darwinian Evolution
After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict