Sewall Wright News Today

Stephen Wolfram explores simple models of biological organisms as computational systems. A study of progressive development, multiway graphs of all possible paths and the need for narrowing the framework space.

A review of <em>An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family,</em> by Alison Bashford.

Disdain for stalwarts and their work is perhaps symptomatic of our collective apathy towards the wider world and the society at large which allows our leaders to do as they wish

This is a descriptive model of Donald Trump's behavior, which ultimately works out to a prediction that Donald Trump won't last very long. In an evolutionary sense, at least. I've found that many people use the term "spite" incorrectly. Many assume it has to do with vitriol or nastiness, or otherwise, is motivated negative behavior of some kind. This is not even close to the scientific definition of the term. A daffodil plant can carry out an act of spite, and a daffod...

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Portraying neo-Darwinism’s mechanisms as optimization strategies is wishful thinking.

According to new research, some copepods can evolve fast enough to survive in the face of rapid climate change

<strong>Letter: </strong>Many discoveries since the modern synthesis have been incorporated into evolutionary biology without substantially changing its major tenets, write <strong>Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth </strong>and<em> </em><strong>Jerry Coyne</strong>

<strong>The long read</strong>: A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology