Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that ...

The DarwinTunes experiment provides a cute illustration of how natural selection works in an entirely artificial ecosystem. But can we learn anything more profound? I believe we can. Similar ...

Mike the Mad Biologist has a post up, A Biologist Confuses Artificial and Natural Selection: There's a really interesting article in last week's NY Times magazine ...

As a result of artificial selection from breeding, certain breeds of these two species—which shared a common ancestor but have been evolutionarily separated for 50 million years—have converged ...