Evolutionary biology, its history, its latest discoveries, and - most importantly - its relevance for health, aging, well being, and understanding everyday life as a human being.
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For centuries, biology was an exercise in rummaging through a vast, darkened factory.
Even in the early 20th Century, biologists were using the feeble candlelight of primitive microscopy and Mendel’s genetics to glimpse the outlines of lif...
The Selfish DNA Upheaval
In 1980, a small dissident group shook the foundations of biology: Ford Doolittle, Carmen Sapienza, Leslie Orgel, and Francis Crick. Their rejection of organismal adaptationism set the stage for the new thinking that took over with the geno...
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I am a Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. My mission is to apply evolutionary biology to everyday problems: aging and health, psychology and happiness, even politics and economics.
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