I’ve discussed many types of mimicry over the years, and one of them is Müllerian mimicry, in which a group of species, often not that related, come to mimic each other in appearance. In this ...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/15/mimicry-in-butterfly-flight-behavior/
Hari Sridhar, a Fellow of the Konrad Lorenz Institute, has, with others, launched a new site called Reflections on Papers Past. Here’s the site’s aim (read more at the link): Reflections o...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/12/reflections-on-papers-past-coyne-and-orr-1989/
The Biological Species Concept, or “BSC,” was devised and refined by evolutionist Ernst Mayr in the 1930s and 1940s as a way to conceptualize the distinct groups—”species”—that we see...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/02/25/do-asexual-bacteria-form-biological-species/
By Jerry Coyne and Greg Mayer Yesterday Carl Zimmer wrote a piece for the NYT on species concepts and conservation. Both Greg and I, who discussed the piece and are coauthoring our take on it, fo...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/02/20/carl-zimmer-on-species-and-conservation/
What we have below (click on headline for free access) is a review in Nature by Denis Noble of a new book by Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology, which has garnered ...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/02/12/yet-another-misguided-attempt-to-revise-evolution/
Here’s some Friday “gee whiz” evolution. A video showing what the maker, who speaks in what I think is Hindi) considers the “Top Ten Invisible Animals in the World”. But you don’t hav...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/01/05/best-camouflaged-animals/
I occasionally get questions like this one: “What do you consider the most convincing evidence for evolution?” My answer is usually “the fossil record combined with dating methods,” but...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/11/02/convincing-evidence-for-human-evolution/
Reader Mary sent me a video by the incomparable ZeFrank, and it’s a lovely one, a full 15 minutes about crabs with lots of great video and accurate biology. Mary said this: Really good one with...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/10/30/zefrank-on-incredible-crab-stories/