Editor in Chief at BioEssays, Andrew Moore, recently called for greater recognition of what he calls "integrators." These are s...

A naturalist’s approach in the molecular age [Update June 11, 2014:  Here's  how far this project has come.] Brief Description ...

We presented a list of principles last week that we think are generic and help explain much of what goes on in life -- during development, ...

Is life sloppy or not?  Our last two posts discussed reasons to think it is, that it's orderly in many ways, but not so precise as to be...

So now the Hype-O-Mat is in full force, with the media hacks taking stories from the science panderers about how the new (Exciting! Transfor...

In defense of our working description of life as slop, which we posted about yesterday, we suggest here a few principles that we believe ap...

From Darwin's time to the present, theories advanced to explain the nature and evolution of life have generally attempted something that...