I'd guess that few people outside of primate paleontology are familiar with the story of The Ape in the Tree.    It's one of those s...

The current (March 6,  2014) issue of The New York Review of Books includes a review  (paywall) by physicist Freeman Dyson of a new book by...

Well, folks, as to how your research money is being spent: Here's the Bulletin of the Week (or, at least, Day) from Nature , Heredity,...

H ere's another installment on the idea of well-posed questions in evolutionary and biomedical genetics, and related areas of epidemiolo...

Yesterday we discussed what are called 'well-posed" questions.  Science is the enterprise by which we try to answer questions we h...

Y esterday Ken wrote about the Gary Taubes piece in Sunday's NYT that asked why nutrition science has failed to explain the obesity a...

Is beer good for your health or is it a slow killer?  What about, say, bread, broccoli, wine, eggs, or (dare we say it?), sex? Beer; Yeb...