I missed this from earlier in the week. Nicholas Wade discusses David Sloan Wilson, Group Selection theory, and its relevance to the evolution of religion.

British actor Edward Woodward (Breaker Morant, The Equalizer series) has passed away.

Larry Moran discusses Genetic Load and why humans haven’t mutated themselves into extinction.

Ed Yong with further reflections on the new discovery about the FOXP2 gene.

Fascinating new finding that a slight change in the FOXP2 gene may explain why we have the tools to speak, and our primate relatives do not: Two tiny changes in the sequence of one gene could have helped install the mechanisms of speech and language in humans. In 2001, a gene called FOXP2 was found… Continue reading