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Photo: A lionfish, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Evolution in Real Time” (Yeah, Right)

Yet another article announces a sociological study has found public attention towards the lionfish “is aiding in monitoring its evolution nearly in real time.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ben Sale, via Flickr (cropped).

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›
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Photo: Lehigh University campus, by IR393DEME [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2

Lang and Rice cite a number of articles to show that loss-of-function mutations are just a small minority of those found in studies of organisms. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Snowshoe hares, via National Park Service.

Peppered Hares — An Emerging Evolutionary Icon

Some hares turn white in winter where it’s snowy, but remain brown in winter where it’s mild. What does that have to do with Darwinian evolution? Read More ›

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