Evolution Diary

“Regressive evolution,” or the reduction of traits over time, is the result of either natural selection or genetic drift, according to a study on cavefish by researchers at New York University’s Department of Biology, the University of California at Berkeley’s Department of Integrative Biology, and the Harvard Medical School. (…)

The mind, as it evolves
Depression as a survival tool? Some new treatments assume so.
By Julia M. Klein
Special to The Times
February 12, 2007
IN the fall of 2005, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson Jr. (…)

Break time from all the serious stuff.
Watch this funny stand up comic clip of Lewis Black talking about evolution and fossils.

How a young earth creationist can be a paleontologist at the same time?
Believing Scripture but Playing by Science’s Rules
By CORNELIA DEAN
KINGSTON, R.I. (…)

Australian scientists say they have found morsels of fossilized muscle—the oldest vertebrate tissue ever known—in the remains of two fish that lived 380 to 384 million years ago. (…)