Research Articles
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.
Evolution in the Classroom: Why Science Education Relies on Evidence, Not Dogma
Exploring the scientific evidence for evolution and why it belongs in science classrooms, while creationism and intelligent design do not.
Susumu Ohno and the Evolutionary Power of Gene Duplication
Exploring Susumu Ohno's groundbreaking theory of evolution through gene duplication and its experimental validation
The Great Chain of Beings? Not So Fast: How a Philosopher Redefined Evolution
Explore David Hull's revolutionary conception of evolutionary theory - from species as spatiotemporal individuals to the interplay of replicators and interactors.