Month: July 2014
Now, Apes Will Join the War on Humans
The new Planet of the Apes movie sounds like a midsummer night’s dream for biologist Eric Pianka, known for musings about what might prove lovable about an ebola pandemic.
If Nature’s Designs Weren’t So Good, Engineers Wouldn’t Be Rushing to Imitate Them
From cells to seeds to humans, there’s no organism that is escaping the envy of bioengineers.
Flannery Goes to Edinburgh
Our friend and colleague Professor Michael Flannery is in Scotland, doing some research on Alfred Russel Wallace at the University of Edinburgh.
On Human Origins, a Cautionary Tale with "Surprising" Biological Results
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, DNA sequencing was sweeping the scientific scene with its power to answer a number of unsolved problems.
Conversations with Stephen Meyer: Surprised by Praise
It’s not only the response of the critics that proves there’s a legitimate scientific controversy here.