Evolution Diary

Gene variants may help to distribute the work of evolution between men and women
Reykjavik, ICELAND, January 31, 2008 – Scientists from deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) today report the discovery of two common, single-letter variants in the sequence of the human genome (SNPs) that regulate one of the principle motors of evolution. (…)

The ancestors of today’s Polynesians and Micronesians were probably East Asians who quickly island-hopped through Near Oceania—what is now Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands—a new genetic study suggests. (…)

Adapted from Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin © 2008. Reprinted with permission by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Shubin, Chicago’s Robert R. (…)

PZ Myers wrote an excellent article on the evolution of the eye. Nice read.
 How different are animal eyes? (…)

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