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Biology

Jul 13, 2012

Sexual Selection Not So Simple

Revisiting a classic study could overturn the idea that male competition rules reproductive choice.

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Jul 12, 2012

Down on the Cacao Farm: Sloths Thrive at Chocolate Source

Once a tract of tropical forest has been cleared, sloths have relatively little capacity to seek out new habitats.

Biology
Environment
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Jul 12, 2012

Clash of Paradigms

Why Proponents of Multilevel Selection Theory and Inclusive Fitness Theory Sometimes (But Not Always) Misunderstand Each Other.

Biology
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Jul 12, 2012

It’s Rats vs. Penguins on Contested Chilean Island

"The cause of the decline in the penguin population is man," said bird veterinarian Paula Arce. "And of its eggs ... That could be the rats."

Biology
Environment
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Jul 10, 2012

Related Birds Evolve Different Songs and Colours

Canadian Researchers have discovered a pattern in birds' songs and plumage that help explain some of the colourful and tuneful variety in nature.

Biology
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Jul 10, 2012

The Good Fight

Prominent scientists are in a bitter struggle over the origins of kindness. But the root of this conflict may be the most ironic part of all.

Biology
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Jul 2, 2012

The Nature Of Regulation II: Regulate Or Die

In biology, regulation isn’t about less or more. It’s about just the right kind of regulation required to survive and reproduce.

Biology
Politics
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Jun 30, 2012

Multilevel Selection is a Productive Theoretical Framework for Investigating Human History

Evolutionists respond to Steven Pinker's challenge to group selection. ETVOL welcomes all points of view.

Biology
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Jun 30, 2012

Debate on Altruism, Human Social Evolution, and Natural Selection

In the spirit of Evolution: This View of Life's mantra "science as a process of constructive disagreement" we will highlight the debate and welcome all the arguments.

Biology
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Jun 28, 2012

On the Evolution of Human Morality (a comment on Steven Pinker)

Why do fundamentally selfish beings, which is what humans are according to the selfish gene theory, accept cultural norms that contradict their natural strivings?

Biology
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Jun 25, 2012

Evolution and Our Inner Conflict

Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?

Biology
Mind
Morality
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Jun 24, 2012

Richard Dawkins in Furious Row With EO Wilson Over Theory of Evolution

A disagreement between the twin giants of genetic theory.

Biology
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Apr 23, 2012

Eight Criticisms Not to Make About Group Selection

Eight criticisms that no one should be making about group selection.

Biology
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Mar 24, 2012

Why Is Everyone Still So Muddled About Selfish Genes?

The Selfish Gene, Selfishness, and Multi-Level Selection: Why a 36-year Old Concept Remains So Misunderstood

Biology
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Mar 10, 2012

Pugilistic Science.

On science, science journalism, selfish genes, group selection, and hitting below the belt.

Biology
Religion
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Mar 2, 2012

Why Evolution is True: Jerry Coyne

Evolution in schools and politics, fly speciation, evolutionary psychology, and group vs kin selection

Biology
Religion
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Feb 25, 2012

Evolution and Black History Month

Joseph Graves discusses the myth of race, racial disparities in health, and why there are so few African American evolutionists.

Biology
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Feb 15, 2012

Mass Extinction Survivors Took 2M Years to Evolve

The discovery challenges the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass extinctions.

Biology
Paleontology
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Feb 11, 2012

Welcome to Evolution: This View of Life

A Message to Friends of Evolution.The magazine provides an intellectual forum at the professional level. We will strive to portray science as it actually happens: not as a monolithic collection of facts, but as an ongoing process of constructive disagreement that gradually converts hypotheses into durable knowledge.

Biology
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