A verse to Christmas  I t’s great to have a holiday, to revel in good cheer, And   a verse to Christmas is something to hold dear; T...

" A s behavioral ecologists, we try to reveal rules of behavior as though we were discovering truths.  In reality, the word 'rule...

T here is a valuable discussion in Nature about the problems that have arisen related to the (mis)use of statistics for decision-making.  T...

Josie Glausiusz wrote a very nice piece published at Undark today called, Of Evolution, Culture, and the Obstetrical Dilemma: Anthropologi...

I n the late 1800s, in England, Darwinism and its intellectual cousin, genetic determinism, were the hot topics.  And Darwin's literal c...

N othing we humans do lives up to its own mythology. We are fallible, social, competitive, acquisitive, our understanding is incomplete, and...

T his post reflects much that is in the science news, in particular our current culture's romance with data (or, to be more market-savvy...