Zebra stripes evolved to keep biting flies at bay

Time and again, organisms have shown themselves to be adept at evolving around seemingly insurmountable obstacles to their spread and survival.

Large mammals such as the black rhino (pictured) take longer to evolve than do small mammals.

Why should he sit still and see a valued and precious discipline being insulted, even threatened with not being taught?

Baby steps versus long jumps: The "size"
f evolutionary change, and why it matters

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

This article was published in New Statesman, 23rd Jan 2012, under a different title. [Also in Polish]

Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition: Richard Dawkins's Answer to the Annual Edge Question

Afterword from Lawrence Krauss' New Book
A Universe From Nothing

I suspect that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but it is probably extremely rare and isolated on far-flung islands of life, like a celestial Polynesia.

The new 'evidence' amounts to yet another 'Argument from Personal Incredulity': the Italian scientists cannot understand how it could have been faked.