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When I was a child of about 10 or 11, the English countryside saw one of the most impressive cases of rapid evolution yet witnessed in a wil...

Neanderthal-human sex bred light skins and infertility - life - 29 January 2014 - New Scientist Modern techniques of DNA recovery, sequenc...

A Silurian short-great-appendage arthropod A strange new arthropod beautifully preserved in a nodule of calcite, found in rocks known to g...

Prompted by a comment by Bill The Butcher on my recent blog about the newly-discovered river dolphin in the Amazon river system, I decide...

Long-lost lake may have helped humans out of Africa - 22 January 2014 - New Scientist Another piece has probably just fallen into place in...

Inia araguaiaensis New species of river dolphin born of Amazon rapids - life - 22 January 2014 - New Scientist The discovery in a tribu...

The ancient tumour genes are most similar to husky genes Infectious cancer preserves dog genes for 11,000 years - life - 23 January 2014 ...

Nothingness: Why nothing matters - physics-math - 24 November 2011 - New Scientist . The above article is from the New Scientist book, No...

Pachyderm politics and the powerful female - life - 07 January 2014 - New Scientist To those who assume that humans are the only species w...

British subspecies of robin ( Erithacus rubecula melophilus ) Of course we can never know for sure what a bird like the European robin th...

Back in 2008, New Scientist published a list of 24 myths about evolution , 14 of which were specifically creationist myths. The article debu...

The elephant or ghost shark, Callorhinchus milii Elephant shark takes record for slowest evolution - life - 08 January 2014 - New Scienti...

Texas repels creationist threat to biology textbooks - life - 31 December 2013 - New Scientist Great news from Texas that yet another atte...

Arthritic and inbred Image: John Reader/Science Photo Library Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution - 28 November 2013 - New Sc...

Stonehenge Man (Image: English Heritage) Stonehenge Man: not just a pretty face - life - 03 January 2014 - New Scientist Using forensic ...

In this season of peace and goodwill to all mankind - if you believe the Christian propaganda that is - I thought it might be instructive to...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck In this blog I'm going to look at what were once competing theories for explaining the fact of observable evolu...

BBC News - Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing The news that the late computer genius Alan Turing has been given a royal pardon for h...

Our morals were not handed down to us by gods but evolved with us as a set of psychological processes which fitted us for living in small, c...

BBC News - Supreme Court judges allow Scientology wedding The Supreme Court of England and Wales has decided that a Scientology TM church...