Would JISAKOS have published Darwin?

Darwin would have loved DNA: celebrating Darwin 200.

Analysis of DNA sequences now plays a key role in evolutionary biology research. If Darwin were to come back today, I think he would be absolutely delighted with molecular evolutionary genetics, for three reasons. First, it solved one of the greatest problems for his theory of evolution by natural selection. Second, it gives us a tool that can be used to investigate many of the questions he fou...

Why Darwin would have loved evolutionary game theory.

Humans have marvelled at the fit of form and function, the way organisms' traits seem remarkably suited to their lifestyles and ecologies. While natural selection provides the scientific basis for the fit of form and function, Darwin found certain adaptations vexing or particularly intriguing: sex ratios, sexual selection and altruism. The logic behind these adaptations resides in frequency-dep...

Who Would Have Thought?

Results of a study from Mississippi State University, working with the parents of more than 16,000 kids reveals big news. The study on self-control compared the scores of children exhibiting poor or unhappy behavior and how well they respected and worked with peers, to parents’ statements on how frequently they attended worship, talked with their children about religion, and argued about religi...

Extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Charles Darwin would understand.

Less Would Have Been More1

Stephen Jay Gould, remarkable paleontologist and revered popularizer of science, died of cancer on May 20, 2002. With his death, he passed into the history that he loved; a history, as he well knew, whose mills grind exceedingly fine. Those mills have started work on his writings, just as he ruminated memorably over books by Lamarck, Cuvier, Goethe, Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Darwin, Weismann, de Vr...