"That's just on the way, I suppose, to understanding the late quartets of Beethoven," says philosopher Denis Dutton about "the pleasure that people get from their dogs and cats." Image of Baby defending his turf from our October 2005 post......

David Sloan Wilson has written some terrific articles on the topic of evolution. I recently ran across a 2005 article he wrote for PLoS Biology www.plosbiology.org  titled “Evolution for Everyone: How to Increase Acceptance of, Interest in, and Knowledge about Evolution.”    The arti...

A poster that fills me with hope....

"The development, survival, and reproduction of an organism depend on the genetic information that is carried in its genome, yet the transmission of genetic information is not perfectly accurate: new mutations occur at each generation. These mutations are the primary cause of the genetic diversity o...

Today was Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and 150 years after his On the Origin of Species. Remarkably, even now only about a quarter of Americans accept the theory of natural selection. 63% believe that life has always existed in its current form or was created thr...

On Charles Darwin’s birthday, the Chairman of Virginia’s Republican Party stammers out, “Darwin is best known for the theory of evolution, arguing that men are not only, quote, are, are only, not, not created, but they are not equal, as more, as some are more evolved. Whereas Darwi...

Read it and weep (or if you’re a creationist, throw a party): On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution. But if you look at the actual results, that headline’s a little skewed. It doesn’t mean that 60% of Americans reject science; it means that 39% accept the th...

My favorite part is the Dover, Pennsylvania science teachers. [Video] Put together by The Society for the Study of Evolution....

And reddit was there to celebrate it. See today's logo if you need any more convincing... Now I'm off to a Darwin-themed pub crawl -- this is going to be more fun than carrying around dead finches on the HMS Beagle....

It’s the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential scientists in history, Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection is still being vehemently denounced by zealots. Here’s part one of a well done show on Darwin’s breakthroughs and the effects...