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.

It’s one of the world’s most elusive animals, but this particular Sumatran rhinoceros is anything but camera shy, judging from its noisy investigation of a video camera trap. (…)

Steve Jones will talk about what evolution is, about new evidence that men and chimps are close relatives and about how we are, nevertheless, unique and why creationism does more harm to religion than it does to science. (…)

March 6, 2007—A new population of bonobos, one of humankind’s closest genetic relatives, has been discovered deep in a forest in Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo. (…)

February 22, 2007—Since the 1960s scientists have known that chimpanzees are able to make and use tools—behavior once thought to be an exclusively human trait. (…)