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Killing with Kindness
By Barbara Oakley, Guruprasad Madhavan, Ariel Knafo, and David Sloan Wilson
Studying the evolution of altruistic behaviors reveals how knee-jerk good intentions can backfire.
Book Excerpt from Pathological Altruism
By Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Michael McGrath
In Chapter 1, editors Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Michael McGrath introduce the concept of well-intentioned behaviors that go awry.
Gain a Chromosome and Adapt
By Sabrina Richards
Research in yeast shows that aneuploidy is both a consequence of and an adaptation to stress.
Ind. Senators Vote for Creationism
By Bob Grant
A committee in the Indiana state legislature OKs a bill aimed at getting creationism into public school science classes.
The Making of a Trait
By Megan Scudellari
Populations of organisms acquire beneficial traits repeatedly and rapidly through co-evolution with other species and through gene interaction.
Evolving Multicellularity
By Jef Akst
Using an artificial selection paradigm, researchers watch as unicellular yeast evolve into snowflake-like clusters with distinct multicellular characteristics.
Killer TB Hits India
By Bob Grant
An incurable form of tuberculosis has turned up on the subcontinent.
How to Survive Freezing Waters
By Jef Akst
For at least one species of octopus, all it takes is a little RNA editing.
Anthropomorphism: A Peculiar Institution
By Marlene Zuk
Should we rethink the parallel drawn between “slave-making” ants and human slavery, and other such oversimplifications of animal behavior?
