Evolution Diary

Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on Neo-Darwinism during a recent trip to the Galapagos. Q&A session is sort of blended into the second half of the lecture.

In 1950, in a letter to bishops, Pope Pius XII took up the issue of evolution. (…)

Penguins about the size of humans roamed South America some 35 million years ago, and they didn’t need ice to survive. (…)

Today the only place to see woolly mammoths and people side-by-side is on The Flintstones or in the movies. (…)

The adaptive significance of the unique ability in many primates to distinguish red hues from green ones (i.e., trichromatic color vision) has always enticed debate among evolutionary biologists. (…)