Archives
- 17: Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite
- 11: Mapping human genetic diversity in Asia
- 10: BEAST v1.5.3 released
- 08: Beatles 3000
- 03: Crux – A python library for molecular phylogenetics
- 02: H.M.’s brain to be dissected live online
- 26: Peer Review 1945
- 26: The Endangered Languages Armamentation Programme
- 24: Tuberculosis in Dr Granville’s mummy
- 11: Universal motifs in color naming
- 11: A Single Origin for Dogs South of Yangtze River
- 11: Predicting the direction of ornament evolution in guppies
- 05: The independent innovation of lego lexicon
- 20: Apocalypse Soon. Is the world really going to end in 2012?
- 18: The death of language?
- 16: 30 years of adaptationism
- 14: Wednesday Wiki: A list of languages by first written accounts
- 13: Tree tuesday: The global human mitochondrial tree
- 12: Map of the languages of Indo-China
- 12: Kiwi accent rated one of the most attractive forms of English
- 11: Building social cognitive models of language change
- 09: Musical interlude: Carl Sagan’s ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking
- 08: Evidence that two main bottleneck events shaped modern human genetic diversity — Proceedings B
- 07: Why data-sharing policies matter
- 07: Wednesday Wiki: Decipherment of rongorongo
- 06: Altruism vs. Selfishness: Case Closed
- 06: Using Phylogenetics to trace morphological evolution
- 20: Melanism in evolution
- 18: The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Australopithecus africanus
- 11: Phylogenetics in the NY Times
- 05: Wednesday Wiki: The Bone Wars
- 28: Is there more to heredity, natural selection, and evolution than genes and DNA
- 24: Bioinformatics: the news of my death has been greatly exaggerated
- 22: The rise of the multi-author paper
- 21: we’re now entering the postwar phase of reconstruction—the scientific equivalent of nation-building
- 21: The problems with Paleofantasies
- 16: Victorian novels helped us evolve into better people, say psychologists
- 09: The importance of stupidity in Scientific research
- 22: Geneticists in 1953
- 18: Migration: An engine for social change
- 16: Tree Tuesday: The Computer Tree
- 28: The great divide in Anthropology
- 21: Computational Linguistics goes open access… almost.
- 06: A chimpanzee riding on a segway
- 01: The problems of bilingual road signs: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”
- 01: Jacobs et al ‘08 – Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal
- 29: New Simonyi Chair appointed – Marcus du Sautoy
- 28: Why societies collapse – Jared Diamond
- 28: Wednesday Wiki: Captain James Cook
- 22: What could be cooler than a dinosaur ROCK band?
- 22: Phrase of the week: “linguistically nerd this shit up”
- 19: Dreaming in black and white
- 15: The sooner EndNote dies, the better
- 22: Collins Dictionary asks public to “rescue” outdated words
- 21: “Instead of sipping martinis from cocktail glasses, socialites at this month’s New York Fashion Week were paying to spit into test tubes.”
- 18: Number of citations increases with paper length
- 17: Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning?
- 17: Neanderthal brain size at birth provides insights into the evolution of human life history
- 06: Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
- 02: Seventh Graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab
- 02: Darwin’s impact on our place in the world
- 30: Mayan origins of Tahitian Vanilla
- 28: I know it’s not a real word, but…
- 20: Mirror self-recognition in Magpies
- 17: Systematic Biology T-Shirts
- 09: England’s rock art
- 09: Neanderthal mitochondrial genome sequenced
- 08: I have tried hard to substitute deer and mosquitoes for sharks and rats in my house of horrors, but it’s just not working.
- 05: Charles Darwin: Genius
- 05: Dingle not An Daingean
- 05: Y-chromosomal evidence of a pastoralist migration through Tanzania to southern Africa
- 30: How YOU can get evolution back into museums
- 28: Where is human evolution heading?
- 28: The BBC “Meads” Anuta’s Noble Savages.
- 25: Dinosaurs, Supertrees, and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution
- 19: …one of the chief values of print library research is poor indexing
- 13: A Look at Linguistic Evolution
- 09: The Migration History of Humans: DNA Study Traces Human Origins Across the Continents
- 04: The Singing Cavemen
- 27: A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History
- 25: Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?
- 24: Does human culture evolve via natural selection, as our genes do?
- 24: Stephen Shennan on Evolution in Archaeology
- 23: Lost tribe, not so lost
- 22: Darwin was ’smashed’
- 20: Scientific misconduct is common?
- 10: Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes
- 05: Hawks on Handling Exponential Growth in Demographic Models
- 05: Beeridging the Cultural Divide
- 05: Reflections of Alex the Parrot
- 04: European traditions: Phallus fights, cheese rolling, etc
- 04: Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat
- 31: Anyone going to HBES 2008?
- 27: Tree Tuesday: The Affinities of Jaffa Cakes
- 27: K. David Harrison interview – “Why languages die”
- 22: “Lexomics” – Breaking the language barrier
- 21: Did humans colonise the world by boat ~10,000 years ago?
- 21: Could Nim do this?
- 20: 16% of US Biology teachers believe that God created humans within the last 10,000 years
- 16: Joshua Klein on “the amazing intelligence of crows”
- 13: Stupid Science Terminology Award #2: “Shaq-teria”
- 13: Tree Tuesday: Klimt’s tree of life
- 11: Evolution… because…
- 10: Origins of Human Malaria
- 09: Fieldwork notes, or why I should never…
- 08: Ask Frans de Waal
- 07: Beyond the Blue Horizon: how ancient voyagers settled the far-flung islands of the Pacific
- 04: Blocking the cultural transmission of violence
- 03: Why Santa Claus is not a God
- 29: Tree Tuesday: The evolution of nervousness
- 28: Commas everywhere! An epidemic of errant punctuation
- 25: The dawn of human matrilineal diversity
- 24: Curse you, phylogenetics!
- 24: Vengeance: twenty-nine more killings and three hundred pigs
- 24: World Atlas of Language Structures online
- 22: Tree tuesday: Sabica, Wernham 1914
- 22: Tourism and the modern Kayan
- 22: Berger responds to Nature’s criticism
- 20: The subject smugly completed the second and third runs of the three-dimensional spatial task with ease
- 19: It’s a good thing they died out then, eh?
- 17: Palau bones: Caught between science and entertainment
- 15: Tree tuesday: Ethanolomics
- 14: Shipping brains
- 12: Chicken testicles and the role of humor in language change
- 11: If you cared about money you wouldn’t be a scientist at all would you?
- 09: Quote: Animated cursors and Beowulf clusters
- 09: Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture
- 09: Proto-Indo-European: The Land East of the Asterisk
- 06: The new issue of Unscientific American
- 05: Genbank is simply awe-inspiring
- 01: Nim Chimpsky: The chimp who thought he was a boy
- 31: Boskops – a figment of anthropologists’ imaginations
- 30: Dinosaur tip #1
- 30: Text speak causing collapse of society
- 28: Neanderthals wore makeup?
- 28: Expected anomalies in the fossil record
- 26: Evolving the Wow! Factor
- 21: I love lucy
- 20: Chimpanzees aren’t endangered because they’re on TV
- 20: Ancient humans and the Bering strait
- 19: Modern day bow and arrow warfare, Kenya
- 19: On deep history and the brain by Daniel Lord Smail
- 18: R-phylo.org launched
- 18: How to think, I think
- 16: Six degrees of instant messaging
- 16: Argh thesis
- 12: Open-Access is the future
- 12: Domestication of the Donkey
- 10: Anyone at Evolang 2008?
- 09: 10,000 BC -
- 09: Dear Zoo Visitor…
- 07: Gotta have more orange juice
- 05: Distinct genomic signatures of adaptation in pre- and postnatal environments during human evolution
- 03: Cladistic? Did you mean…?
- 03: 21 accents, 2 and 1/2 minutes
- 29: Mayan Blue, the color of Chaak
- 28: How bird song transfers information
- 27: Prozac and other SSRIs don’t work?
- 27: The Encyclopedia of Life online
- 26: Austronesian genetic signature in East African Madagascar and Polynesia
- 25: Psychology’s top 10 misguided ideas.
- 21: Long-term bottleneck effects: Europeans have more deleterious genetic variation than African populations
- 20: A bad case of sudden-onset musicophilia
- 20: Extremely large brains in New Caledonian Crows
- 19: Olivia Judson’s tyrannical fantasy
- 18: My ancestors were speaking to me
- 17: Understanding Evolutionary Trees
- 13: Poetry Corner: When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
- 13: Seymour Benzer – The Man Who Took Us from Genes to Behaviour
- 13: What would Darwin think of the human genome project?
- 10: Round-up: Music, Pinker & Bloom, tool use
- 01: Punctuated Equilibrium and the evolution of languages.
- 31: Mid-Cambrian Morning by Rosemary Mosco
- 30: Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
- 29: Stamping his mark – on the bacterial genome
- 29: A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions
- 27: Poetry Corner: Said the little Eohippus
- 24: The relationship between Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu-speaking farmers
- 24: Creationists launch “science” journal to “disseminate the(ir) vast fields of research”
- 23: The last traditional speaker of the Eyak language died yesterday
- 23: A minor style tweak
- 22: Home DNA testing services “not exact enough” and “dangerous waste of money”
- 19: Discerning the Ancestry of European Americans in Genetic Association Studies
- 19: Pinker on “The Logic of Indirect Speech”
- 15: Number of human genes shrinks again
- 14: Visualising English Nouns
- 12: Modeling the prehistoric arrival of the sweet potato in Polynesia
- 10: Genome-wide Analysis Indicates More Asian than Melanesian Ancestry of Polynesians
- 07: Nature Archives Online
- 03: Question:Email addresses of …?
- 03: Using mtDNA to predict population size
- 02: 2008 – The International Year Of…
- 01: Composite faces of the world
- 26: The Renaissance of Latin
- 25: Doctor slang is a dying art
- 23: Trukese sexology
- 23: Tyrannosaurs in F14’s!
- 20: A General Comparison of Relaxed Molecular Clock Models
- 20: Anthropologists have a reputation for being ‘a detestable bunch of bubble prickers.’
- 20: Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India
- 18: Tectonics? Really?
- 18: Barbarisation: My loony bun is fine Benny Lava
- 17: New Science Editor Skeptical of Open Access Publishing
- 13: The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with phylogenies)
- 12: Coevolution with viruses drives the evolution of bacterial mutation rates
- 12: Teach the controversy!
- 10: Links: Hawks on Hominids, Personal DNA is a scam, genetics and voodoo linguistics
- 09: Mobile DNA elements in primate and human evolution
- 08: Tuberculosis much, much older than originally thought
- 07: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
- 07: Where (extremely precisely) lies the notch?
- 07: LOLCreashun – do NOT want
- 02: The Scrabble Theory of English Spelling
- 02: Long-term evolution of transposable elements
- 01: Happy birthday Henry!
- 28: Viking surnames and genetics
- 27: Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans
- 25: NYTimes on Young Earth Geology
- 24: Theory of Mind Is Independent of Episodic Memory
- 22: …three weeks later, I was already somewhat addicted to the daily communion with my genes.
- 21: What I want for Xmas – A Garden Gnome Chomsky
- 21: The relative importance of directional change, random walks, and stasis in the evolution of fossil lineages
- 20: The Drummond Lab Blog: Computational Biology and Evolution
- 16: …and this is way languages end, not with a bang but with someone sulking
- 16: Horizontal gene transfer regulation as a spandrel of DNA Repair mechanisms
- 15: Scalzi vs. The Creationism Museum
- 14: Feminism wiped out Neanderthals?
- 11: Son of a preacher-man (signed)
- 11: Substance overuse in popular songs
- 10: RIP Norman Mailer
- 09: Could it be a big world after all?
- 08: Latin phrases: Catapultam habeo
- 07: Happy birthday Helvetica!
- 06: Robot-Toddler socialisation
- 04: Petition to reclassify “intelligent design” books
- 02: Statistical evaluation of alternative models of human evolution
- 01: Do chimps have culture? a phylogenetic study
- 31: Stupid Science Terminology Award #1: “Brainbow”
- 31: R.I.P. Washoe
- 31: Does the distinction between free and open access really matter if anyone can read the article for free?
- 29: Novelty and collective attention: The Digg Effect
- 27: 25 Most Endangered Primates
- 27: Genetic disorders and the Amish
- 24: Four Stone Hearth #26
- 23: The comma’s fading popularity is also social commentary
- 20: Sunday pot-luck
- 19: Watson apologises, and gets suspended
- 18: Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
- 17: James Watson is inherently gloomy about Africa
- 15: Science’s worst enemy
- 13: Derek Bickerton’s Language Evolution: A brief guide for linguists
- 13: Philological Considerations on the Whence of the Maori
- 11: What the F***, Steven Pinker?
- 10: Rates of word evolution: The less a word is used, the faster it evolves
- 10: Language and scientific publication
- 09: Wednesday wiki: Photic Sneeze Reflex
- 09: Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia
- 08: New MBE: Click languages, human-specific genes, mtDNA, selection & non-coding DNA
- 03: Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl
- 02: Rock-hard evidence of Pacific Trade
- 02: Round-up: speech sounds, Pama-Nyungan, Baby Einstein, Bird-song and Biblical archaeology
- 27: Language and music appear to be processed by the same brain systems
- 25: Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe
- 25: Boston Globe: How bird brains are shaking up science
- 23: The most important psychology experiment that’s never been done?
- 20: Language extinction and the Enduring voices project.
- 18: Papers I should Read: Culling-induced social perturbation in Eurasian badgers
- 13: psychantenna.com – a new Psychology blog network
- 13: Patterns of Y-chromosome Diversity Intersect with the Trans-New Guinea Hypothesis
- 12: Jonathan Haidt on moral psychology and the misunderstanding of religion
- 09: Science special issue on social cognition
- 08: Textbooks make Richard Feynman explode in horror
- 08: Survivor London: Unleashing Ni-Vanuatu on British society
- 07: Autistic children don’t catch yawning
- 05: East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago
- 04: McElreath and Boyd’s Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A guide for the perplexed
- 04: Genomicron’s guide to translating scientific papers into English
- 01: Phylogenetics round-up: Taxon-adding, R, Triangles and branch-lengths
- 29: David Premack on the differences between human and animal cognition
- 24: Inducing Out-of-body experiences
- 20: The social brain hypothesis in anthropoid primates
- 16: Meta-tool use in New Caledonian Crows
- 15: Debating creationists is like playing chess with a pigeon…
- 15: Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
- 14: Sexual Selection Has Shaped the Hominin Face
- 13: Baby, I’m no Fred Flintstone, but I can make your Bedrock!
- 11: Dental evidence on the hominin dispersals during the Pleistocene
- 11: Papers I should read: The cabbage aphid, a walking mustard oil bomb
- 07: Orangutan charades: gestural signalling changes according to audience comprehension
- 03: Workshop on Modern approaches to investigating cultural evolution
- 01: The genetics of traumatic memories: ADRA2β and Rwandan refugees
- 31: Gesturing makes learning last
- 29: Papers I should read: Why Barbie feels heavier than Ken
- 27: Morphological variation in Trilobites peaked during the Cambrian
- 24: Modelling Pterosaur feeding habits
- 22: Language teaching via the medium of aerobics
- 21: Long range linguistics and the Borean language super-super-family
- 19: Nei’s new mutation theory of phenotypic evolution
- 18: Rare Echidna cuisine
- 18: Shibboleth, Sibboleth: early developing language prejudices
- 17: Altruism, not just for humans anymore
- 13: Neolithic settlement of Europe, fractal network theory and hunter-gatherers, & rapid butterfly evolution
- 11: Yay for freckles
- 06: Toba Eruption, scruffy little weeds, transformers and language, etc.
- 02: Roundup Post: New Caledonian Edition – creationism, urine, etc
- 27: Free E-Books from ANU Press: The Austronesians, The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic & Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
- 26: Arrival of the fittest: NY Times on evo-devo
- 26: Did color vision cause social mating systems in primates?
- 24: Yawning to cool your brain
- 21: Brain networks, Lion-Eating Poets and Mammoth sculptures
- 18: Peter Austin on Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation
- 17: Fumerase deficiency in Utah & Arizona
- 13: ENCODE: The ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements
- 13: Intersexual arms race in diving beetles
- 13: von Spix’s Simians
- 11: John Frum meets Prince Philip
- 08: Sean Carroll reviews Behe’s new book on Cretinism
- 08: 82,000 year old Jewelry, Mammoth DNA and population dynamics, and Synesthesia
- 08: Experimental creation of Chimpanzee cultures
- 06: CSI: Neolithic – Oetzi shot dead by arrow
- 06: Jerry Coyne vs U.S. Politicians
- 06: Evolution 2007 programme announced
- 05: James Watson’s missing gene
- 05: Polynesian chickens suggest Polynesian/New World contact around 622BP
- 03: I Believe In Evolution, Except For The Whole Triassic Period
- 03: Uncontacted tribe found in the Amazon
- 01: Congratulations, Dr. Fiona Jordan
- 31: James Watson gets genome back
- 31: The universality of spelling bees?
- 29: ASPM and Microcephalin genes correlate with tonal languages
- 29: Tracing Past Human Male Movements in Northern/Eastern Africa and Western Eurasia
- 26: Bald dinosaurs vs. the origin of feathers
- 26: The sound of music is derived from the sound of language
- 25: DialectSyntax.org a digital meeting place for researchers in the field of micro-comparative syntax
- 25: Babies can identify language by lip-reading
- 25: Comets!
- 24: Jonathan Haidt on the five foundations of morality
- 23: Archives
- 23: Technical Difficulties
- 23: About Henry
- 22: 2008 – International Year of Languages
- 20: A hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere
- 20: Root vegetables did crawl with legumes across the slimy sea?
- 20: Modifier hierarchy in English
- 19: Date of early writing in China pushed back to 7-8,000 BP
- 19: How to write consistently boring scientific literature
- 18: Bare, empty desert stretching around the ruin: the Neanderthals last stand
- 18: Stumbling on Happiness wins Royal Society Prize
- 16: Whale Brains and the smelly cloud of equilibrium
- 15: Google’s approach to machine translation
- 14: Giacomo Rizzolatti was licking ice cream in the lab…
- 14: Female infanticide in chimpanzees
- 13: Revealing the prehistoric settlement of Australia by Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis
- 12: Evolution of Robustness to Noise and Mutation in Gene Expression Dynamics
- 11: Visualising DNA Replication
- 11: Single African origin of human Y Chromosome and mtDNA
- 09: Different adaptations to high-altitude life-styles
- 09: A gene involved in learning and memory (Neuropsin KLK8) has a human-specific mutation
- 09: India begins language documentation project
- 09: Encyclopedia of Life announced
- 08: Lip-reading experience influences hearing
- 06: Gene Genie #6
- 05: The Power of Caramel: Pain tolerance increases when smelling sweet things
- 05: Things I should read: Crane Music
- 04: No half-human monsters, or any other immoral inventions
- 04: Tangled up in goluboy, or siniy?
- 02: Lambda phages, virulence evolution and birdsong memory
- 01: What happens when you mix evolution with climate change?
- 01: Ape gesture and language evolution
- 01: Metalmark Moths Mimic Their Jumping Spider Predators
- 29: Are you conscious? 17 Criteria for Consciousness
- 28: Eva Lindström’s guide to travel in PNG
- 28: My hovercraft is full of eels: software test phrases
- 28: Comments should now be working
- 28: Best popular science books named
- 27: The limited impact of kinship on cooperation in wild chimpanzees
- 27: Slate’s five “biggest” neuroscience developments of the year.
- 26: Nick Thieberger reports on The Puliima National Indigenous Languages Information Communication Techn
- 26: Phylogenetic methods for detecting and resolving rapid radiations
- 24: More genes underwent positive selection in chimpanzee evolution than in human evolution (continued)
- 24: Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley
- 24: The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game
- 23: Music is the universal language.
- 23: Joseph Felsenstein interview
- 21: Mitsubishi: Evolution is no urban myth. It’s the real thing
- 19: Highly endangered languages in Papua New Guinea
- 19: Near Eastern Neolithic origin for domestic cattle, but no domestication of European aurochs
- 19: First evidence of a burrowing, denning dinosaur
- 18: TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) talks for 2007
- 18: Mass Hysteria in Mexico
- 18: Positive selection in Chimpanzee genes has been much higher than in humans
- 17: Beetle divergence times are not coevolved with flowering plants
- 17: Y-chromosome evidence suggests a common paternal heritage of Austro-Asiatic populations
- 16: PZ Myers reviews Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris
- 14: Hello, we’re talking about language
- 14: Island accessibility in Oceania
- 13: The Edge interviews Philip Zimbardo on Heroism and “The Lucifer Effect”
- 13: Eye contact calms hysterical people in COPS
- 13: Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome
- 13: Researchers have given little consideration to vomiting in non-human primates…
- 12: RIP: Kurt Vonnegut
- 10: quechua.org.uk – Quechua language and linguistics
- 10: Will English ever become extinct?
- 10: Maize in Mexico around 7300BP
- 08: Twin studies suggest that religiousness and altruism are genetic
- 08: An introduction to Darwinian Agriculture
- 07: Afarensis on Headless Lapita Bodies at the Teouma site in Vanuatu
- 06: A disease a day, keeps the doctor away.
- 05: Quantifying the social group evolution
- 05: The Red sea probably didn’t part.
- 05: An inordinate fondness for beetles? no, just persistence.
- 04: The linguist of the day
- 04: Where (and How) Evolution Is Taught In the US
- 04: Current Biology: Should fly stay, or should fly go, mate choice and epigenetics
- 04: The evolutionary fate of finite populations
- 02: Imagine that killers have invaded your neighborhood….?
- 02: The real naked ape
- 01: Lemurs, Barcodes and Transposons
- 01: Glass half-full or half-empty?
- 01: Some ancient Latinese guy just making stuff up?
- 01: The case of the disappearing teaspoons
- 31: Quentin Atkinson’s new webpage
- 31: Predatory aliens are twice as bad
- 31: Who has two daddies?
- 29: The changing accents of Britain
- 29: Unintentional Creationist Comedy: #1
- 29: 10th Anniversary issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 29: Wednesday Wiki: Mirror Neurons
- 29: Solving the “lek paradox” in sexual selection
- 28: Birds prefer to breed in sites with low radioactivity in Chernobyl
- 28: Out of Africa scenario depends on a bias in protein coding loci
- 28: Wednesday Wiki: Resistentialism
- 28: What exactly is sleep for?
- 27: A sign of things to come?
- 26: Orang-utans may be extinct within five years
- 25: The beauty of data visualization
- 25: Chimpanzee population genetics shows three distinct populations
- 25: New tool-use behavior in Capuchin Monkeys: Banging rocks to scare predators
- 23: Maori heads to be returned from Chicago
- 23: Smart kids use heavy metal to feel better?
- 21: So how wrong are the molecular clock dates?
- 21: Wednesday Wiki: Fusiform Face Area
- 19: The myths of evolution
- 16: Hybridisation and intra-species evolution
- 15: Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States
- 15: Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia
- 15: Beware of sleeping idioms, or policemen
- 13: The legal implications of neuroscience
- 13: Eric Kandel picks the forthcoming breakthroughs in neuroscience
- 13: Pigs probably took different routes through Island South East Asia
- 10: Subliminal messages may, in fact, work
- 10: Memory in Amoeba
- 08: Recognising faces – a special human capability?
- 08: Genome size and Structure in Birds
- 07: Dingos genetics
- 07: A single gene, vitellogenin, controls multiple traits related to honeybee sociability
- 07: Stephen Oppenheimer tries to solve the mystery of Basque
- 06: Wednesday Wiki: Melanesian
- 06: In search of Gilgamesh, the epic hero of ancient Babylonia.
- 05: Primatology.org on Primate brain evolution
- 05: Free Origin of Species Audiobook
- 03: The perfect lie detector
- 02: Genghis Kahn and “High-Achieving Genes”
- 01: “Melanesian” genetics
- 01: Brainmaps.org unleashed
- 28: Wednesday Wiki: Mullers Ratchet
- 28: Convergent evolution of light skin color
- 28: Barley was domesticated twice
- 25: First settlement of America was not Clovis?
- 24: Chimp-Human divergence time re-estimated at 4 million years instead of 5.7
- 23: Chimpanzees hunting with spears?
- 21: Sapolsky on Primates and stress-related diseases
- 20: Wednesday Wiki: Coalescent theory
- 19: The world’s strangest dinosaur names
- 18: Britney Spears teaches the masses about the occipital lobe
- 17: Chili Pepper cultivation and trade 6,000 years ago in America
- 16: Comparison of theories on the origin of Language
- 16: Happy Valentines Day
- 15: Rates of Evolution in Brain-Expressed Genes in Humans and Other Primates
- 14: Avoiding the E-word
- 13: The age of chimpanzee stone tools
- 13: Open Access to Research is in the Public Interest
- 13: Ethnographic Database Project launched!
- 12: Organ of wonder: large, Organ of veneration: small.
- 10: Introduction to Human origins
- 09: Impact factors? We don’t need no stinkin’ impact factors!
- 07: The white-knuckled thrill ride of Beetle Taxonomy
- 06: A visual geneaology of Rock and Pop music
- 06: BiGG: Modelling human systems
- 06: The history of the fly
- 06: The intelligence of Crows
- 05: Repressed memories: fact or fiction?
- 03: Convergent evolution in Bat echo-location calls
- 01: Myths of the Developing World
- 01: Zazacatla, new Olmec ruins?
- 01: Shrinking Cod
- 31: Big brained birds survive better
- 30: Homo floriensis (the “Hobbit”) may be a distinct species after all
- 30: Happy Birthday Cognitive Dissonance
- 29: The Effect of Typeface on the Perception of Email
- 27: Unearthing the birthplace of Rome
- 26: The propaganda war against open science
- 25: Grue’s my favorite color too
- 24: Mike Love’s Geneaology of Influence
- 24: Rapid evolution of flowering time in response to climate changes
- 24: Pinker waffles about the mystery of consciousness
- 24: Complexity in Pollination systems
- 23: You are what you expect – optimism vs. pessimism
- 23: Bill Hooker on Open Access in Science
- 23: Differentiating between metaphor and irony
- 22: The science of crowd-control
- 21: Questioning the role of the SIL in linguistics
- 21: Robert Trivers wins the 2007 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences
- 20: The Evolution of Human Speech: Its Anatomical and Neural Bases
- 20: The phylogenetic evolution of musical instruments
- 19: The effect of anti-science on America
- 19: Evolution, Interactions, and Biological Networks
- 18: Mate choice copying in humans
- 18: Whose name goes where? Authorship in publications
- 18: The Grand Canyon was NOT caused by Noah’s Flood
- 17: Conspiracy Theories can cause unrecognised attitude change
- 17: Plants and people from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China
- 17: How many Starbucks are too many Starbucks?
- 17: Global systems biology, personalized medicine and molecular epidemiology
- 16: Saving the Pygmies
- 16: Least Common Ancestor Queries
- 15: The Stanford Prison Experiment
- 14: Hallucigenia redux
- 14: Solving the Pinocchio Problem
- 13: Wait for the whites of their eyes…
- 12: Fear any literate man named Darwin, for he is basically an unrighteous phony
- 12: Upper Paleolithic Eurasians originated in sub-Saharan Africa
- 12: The enigmatic Anterior Pre-frontal cortex
- 11: The advantages of being color-blind
- 11: Disuse and degeneration of evolved features
- 11: A brief introduction to Mon-Khmer languages
- 10: What factors dictate the extent of damage a pathogen will inflict on its host?
- 10: If you can’t stand the heat, stay away from the fire suction
- 10: Sorry seems to be the easiest word…
- 10: Easter Island – A “Disney-World of Moai”
- 10: Relationship between migraines and depression?
- 09: The history of the neuron
- 08: How to extract DNA from anything living
- 08: Treating drug-resistant Malaria
- 08: We’ve seen the future, and it is us
- 08: Imagining the future, remembering the past
- 07: The ancient and mysterious history of tattoos
- 06: Whole mtDNA Genome Sequence Analysis of Ancient African Lineages
- 06: Bigger brains in birds means longer life-spans
- 06: Vertical virus transmission in honey-bees
- 06: New species of Bat found in Madagascar
- 05: Shared intentionality and cognition
- 05: What is empathy
- 05: Untangling the mystery of the Inca
- 04: The human zoo
- 04: The Goropius Becanus award for Linguistic Misinformation goes to…
- 03: Cascading Neurons and Attentional Control
- 03: Maize cultivation in South America
- 03: Critiquing studies on comparative brain sizes
- 02: Richard Dawkins is BBC’s “Person of the Year” 2006
- 02: A biblically correct geochronology
- 01: Do galaxies evolve?
- 01: The havoc of Babel
- 31: 2006 Darwin Awards winners announced
- 30: Mirror neurons and observation with intent to learn
- 29: Rate of Evolution in Brain-Expressed Genes in Humans and Other Primates
- 29: Chimpanzees encountering humans, for the first time
- 29: The Grand Canyon – caused by Noah’s flood, of course.
- 28: Mother’s diet influences her grandchildren
- 28: CyArk – the 3d heritage archive network
- 28: Superclades of the Cambrian
- 27: Easter Island’s Rongorongo script
- 27: Gibbon song – for scaring off predators
- 26: Initial human settlement of Timor, ~42KYA
- 26: The evolution of deceptive communication
- 26: Self-Esteem vs. Materialism
- 24: Is face recognition a special and modular cognitive capability?
- 24: Reinterpreting the Doushantuo fossils
- 23: Scientists vs. Religion, 2006 round: Dawkins, Wolpert & Roughgarden
- 23: Spindle neurons are selectively degraded in social dementia
- 23: The science of gift-giving
- 23: Geographical variation in Neanderthals
- 23: Eye color genetics
- 23: Silent mutations do have some effect
- 22: Giraffe’s necks are a result of competition between herbivores
- 22: Science’s breakthroughs of the year, 2006
- 22: Europe’s biggest dinosaur found
- 22: Immaculate conception at Chester Zoo
- 21: It all started with molecular glue…
- 21: Anti-Evolution stickers gone from textbooks in Cobb County
- 20: Two headed fossil found
- 20: Shakespeare excites your brain
- 20: A brief history of religion, in 90 seconds
- 20: A moth species drinks the tears of birds
- 20: The Interactive Tree of Life
- 20: The top ten myths of evolution
- 20: ECRbase: a Database of Evolutionary Conserved Regions, Promoters, TFs etc
- 19: Australopithecus afarensis are damn well not glorified apes
- 19: A Natural History of Play
- 19: More Apocalypto fall-out
- 18: The complex evolutionary history of Gorillas
- 18: Breakthrough in understanding the molecular basis for cellular meiosis
- 17: Defending the molecular clock from creationists
- 16: Faces on Lapita pottery represent turtles and not people.
- 16: Evolution of female bird song
- 16: In and out of Africa, again.
- 14: Project to recover “Sea Henge” underway
- 14: Experimental cultural norms in Chimpanzees
- 14: Faces are more memorable
- 14: Laughter really is contagious
- 13: The Apparently Flawed Design of the Human Organism
- 13: Debating Homo floresiensis: What is the hobbit?
- 13: Balancing evolvability and robustness
- 13: Velociraptors climbed trees
- 12: Free the dinosaurs, now!
- 12: Wired interviews Daniel Dennett and Marvin Minsky
- 11: Convergent evolution in humans: lactose tolerance
- 11: Review of “The First Steps of Animal Domestication”
- 10: Indigenous Populations vs. Genetics
- 10: Mayan Skull’n'Tooth modification
- 10: Yesterday, I holded the bunny – Gender differences in grammar
- 10: Body posture aids memory recall
- 08: Co-operative hunting between different species
- 08: Facial shape reflects climate
- 07: Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto
- 07: water on mars, really this time.
- 07: Evolution in four dimensions
- 07: Nature publishes letter from anti-evolutionist, causes bruhaha.
- 06: People with low self-esteem don’t like surprise endings
- 06: Neanderthals may have been cannibals
- 06: chopstick in brain finds stem cells
- 05: decoding baby language
- 05: Dinosaur Nest sells for USD$420,000
- 05: Urban environments influence birdsong
- 04: You will end up alone
- 04: Richard Leakey attacks creationists in Kenya
- 04: talk-origins.org hacked, and de-listed by google
- 04: Bossou Chimpanzees dying from illness
- 03: Darwin Awards 2006
- 03: Insects and butterflies by E.A. Seguy
- 02: homoploid hybridisation in a butterfly species
- 02: Godwin’s law: meme release and recapture
- 30: World’s oldest ritual – Pythons and burning spearheads
- 30: Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
- 30: Kansas outlaws the practice of evolution
- 29: Mayan Bas reliefs from Palenque
- 28: Lizard personalities influence population dispersals
- 28: Language preservation via parrot
- 25: The Last Cargo Cult
- 24: Mapuche vs. Microsoft
- 24: HapMap announces a database of common variation in the Human genome
- 23: No dark sociobiology in the classroom
- 22: Phenotypic plasticity makes life harder for invaders
- 22: Did brain-specific genes evolve faster in humans than in chimpanzees?
- 22: The honey-bee genome lands
- 22: Heriditary facial expressions?
- 22: The complete works of Charles Darwin, online
- 22: rates of evolution in island populations are increased
- 22: Repeated evolution of Mimicry in Butterflies
- 22: Hello world!