Research Articles
The Ripple Effect: How You, a Single Individual, Shape the Flow of Evolution
Explore how individual actions influence biological and cultural evolution through scientific experiments and dual inheritance theory.
The Ancient Code Within: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Disease
Exploring how evolutionary history reveals why we get sick and how ancient adaptations influence modern disease patterns.
The Evolution Educators: What Galápagos Guides Teach Tourists About Darwin's Legacy
Exploring how Galápagos National Park guides serve as informal science educators and what they teach tourists about evolution and Darwin's legacy.
The Learning Instinct: How Evolution Pre-Programmed Your Brain for Survival
Explore how evolution has shaped our learning capabilities through adaptive specializations, from taste aversions to fear responses.
The Complexity Paradox: How Evolution Builds Sophisticated Systems from Simple Rules
Exploring how evolution creates biological complexity through digital experiments and theoretical frameworks
The Fishy Cost of Sex Appeal: How a Cancer Gene Stays in the Game
Exploring how the Xmrk oncogene persists in Xiphophorus cortezi fish through evolutionary trade-offs between sexual attraction and deadly cancer risk.
The Battle of the Sexes: What Evolution Really Says About Men and Women
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human sex differences and separating scientific facts from common misconceptions.
Untangling the Tree of Life: A String Theory for Animal Relationships
Discover how a simple, hands-on game reveals the deep evolutionary connections between all living creatures through systematics and phylogenetic trees.
The Ultimate Tinkerer: How Nature's 3-Billion-Year-Old Algorithm Powers Life
Explore the three fundamental principles of evolution's genetic algorithm: Variation, Selection, and Inheritance, and how they power life's diversity.
From Belief to Facts: The Compelling Evidence Behind Evolutionary Theory
Explore the compelling evidence that has moved our understanding of evolution from speculative belief to established scientific fact through genetic studies, field observations, and cutting-edge research.