Y esterday we discussed some of the ways in which particularized views of genomic control and evolution were controversial and that, despit...

W ay back in 1964, a famous paper was published in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (vol 7: 343-359, and  reprinted in the Internation...

M any people think that biological traits are due to specific genes and that variation in a trait is due to variation in that gene.  So it w...

T he Reith Lectures , podcast and broadcast by the BBC (Radio 4), are an annual series of talks initiated in 1948 by the BBC's first dir...

S tories about the growing threat of antibiotic resistance generally include alarming predictions about the coming post-antibiotic era, abou...

W ith some diseases and disorders it's very clear when incidence is rising -- asthma in the 1980's and 90's, obesity since World...

By Anne Buchanan and Ken Weiss P lants may be stuck in one place, but they aren't just sitting there twiddling their thumbs.  That the...