Tag: Current Biology
News for the Birds — Smart, Gymnastic, Flute-Playing, Surviving
Is it reasonable that two populations would independently hit on an adaptation by chance?
Ants, Wildebeest, Penguins, and More: A Zoo of Animal Designs
Don’t kick sand in the face of a wildebeest by joking that it looks like it was made by a committee. It might flex its muscles and charge.
More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution
A new statistical study of impacts on the moon concludes that the appearance of an increase was an artifact of biased sampling.
Marvelous Migrations at All Scales
Living things are on the move everywhere. Why do some of them go to great lengths to migrate, while others stay put?
Introducing the New “Conspiracism” Canard
Here’s a fresh twist on efforts to evade a debate about design in nature by associating ID with tendencies in thought that many people find disreputable.