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The dances between species

A review of Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z. The introduction to The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species by David Reznick. Free Origin of Species given away used as tools to fight evolution. Meet Harun Yahya, the leading creationist in the Muslim world. From The Global Spiral, a special issue on Darwinism, including an essay on Two Tribes: Mechanists, Mentalists and the Real Culture War. Teaching by doing: An article on turning a biology curriculum upside down. The first, and greatest, reality show: Carl Zimmer on sex, death, deception — it's all part of the dances between species. More and more on The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins. A review of The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness by Joan Roughgarden. A review of Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Evolution can't go backward: In a kind of evolutionary bridge-burning, once a gene has morphed into its current state, the road back gets blocked. Could the novel evolutionary adaptations of animals like the Galapagos tortoise and the Komodo dragon actually leave these species more vulnerable to extinction? Biologists have created a living computer from E. coli bacteria that can solve complex mathematical problems. Loren Coleman defines cryptozoology and says, once and for all, that it is science. Here are the top ten places where life shouldn't exist but does.