Research Articles
Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution
Explore how universal selection theory extends Darwinian principles beyond biology to explain adaptive complexity in our world without miraculous intervention.
Beyond the Branches: The Hidden Limits of Evolutionary Trees
Exploring the limitations and challenges of phylogenetic trees in comparative biology and evolutionary research.
Digital Seeds: How Computational Tools Are Revolutionizing Plant Breeding
Explore how computational tools and AI are transforming plant genomics and breeding, accelerating crop improvement and enhancing global food security.
The Hidden Order of Evolution: How Global Epistasis Creates Predictability Amid Chaos
Discover how global epistasis creates predictable evolutionary patterns despite genetic randomness, with implications for medicine, biotechnology and understanding life itself.
The Original Sin of Cognitive Science: Why Even Smart People Defend Irrational Beliefs
Exploring identity-protective cognition - the unconscious bias that makes us defend our tribe's beliefs against threatening evidence, regardless of intelligence or education.
The Tie that Binds: How Knots Reveal Our Cultural DNA
Discover how computational analysis of knots across cultures reveals patterns of human innovation and cultural evolution spanning 12,000 years.
Teleonomy vs. Teleology: The Purpose Debate Revolutionizing Biology
Explore the scientific debate between teleonomy and teleology in biology, from ancient philosophy to modern research on mutation bias and molecular self-organization.
Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing Ancestry Estimation in the United States
Exploring how forensic anthropology's ancestry estimation perpetuates racism and how science is decolonizing it through ethical alternatives.
The Sponge Revolution: How Ice and Fire Forged Earth's First Animals
Discover how extreme climate changes and oxygen revolution led to the emergence of the first multicellular animals - the sponges (Porifera).
The Marvelous March Toward Complexity: How Evolution Builds Sophistication From Simplicity
Explore how complexity emerges in evolution through genetic innovation, natural selection, and self-organization. Discover the mechanisms behind nature's sophisticated designs.