Evolution Diary

Ian Musgrave wrote this article on the “bad design” of the vertebrate eyes versus the better invertebrates eyes (cephalopod such as octopus, squid etc). (…)

Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction—and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday. (…)

A rare disease characterized by small brain and body size but near normal intelligence is caused by mutations in a gene coding for the protein pericentrin, researchers have found. (…)

Science, Evolution, and Creationism released
The National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine recently released Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a book designed to give the public a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the current scientific understanding of evolution and its importance in the science classroom. (…)

Although the first ten million years of whale evolution are documented by a remarkable series of fossil skeletons, the link to the ancestor of cetaceans has been missing. (…)