anthropomics

Harvard geneticist David Reich had an op-ed in the New York Times today that I find stimulating. As stupid genetics rants about human va...

There's a new "species" of orangutan.   I hope it's very successful, because I love orangutans. But of course there is...

Some years ago, I wrote a broad critique of The Bell Curve , that old Social Darwinist psychology tome from 1994 by the hereditarian psycho...

Matt Ridley's book, The Evolution of Everything , answers the question, “What if everything in the universe were to be understood as ...

I really wanted to like this book, for the simple reason that any book that the obnoxious fruifly geneticist Jerry Coyne is that contempuou...

               There is an interesting intellectual war going on right now, between scientist/author Siddhartha Mukherjee and molecular gen...

          G. G. Simpson loved words, and used them exceedingly well. He kept the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary behind his writing ...