Intelligent Design, the Resurfacing of a Pseudo-Theory

In the past six months, I have encountered a review, by Thomas Nagel in The New York Review of Books (2012), of Alvin Plantinga’s latest book (Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, 2011 ) and a review, by Alvin Plantinga in The New...

Genetic Origins of Common Human Diseases

In the April 16, 2010, issue of Cell Jon McClellan and Mary-Claire King published a commentary that addressed the nature of the genetic variation that accounts for common human diseases, an issue of profound importance in evolutionary medicine.  The authors also...

Behind Blue Eyes

Perhaps the main lesson we eventually learn in school is how little we actually know. In elementary genetics, we were taught that there are two alleles for eye color, blue and brown, with brown dominant, allowing simple assessment of whether we were more likely...