Paleo Life Art: Ancient Sea Dinosaurs

These Pictures are Great!

Human Extinction 70,000 Years Ago: A Close Call

A report in the New York Times says that 70,000 years ago, the total human population may have dropped to as low as only 2,000 individuals!
What’s particularly interesting to me about this is the timing.  About 50,000 years ago is regarded as the time when humans went through a major brain shift … ie, we [...]

The Evolution Directory

A What’s What and when in the world of Evolution

A History of Evolutionary Thought

Blackwell Publishing provides a fantastic little collection of classic papers in Evolutionary Biology.  Including Gould’s Punctuated Equilibria paper.  Great Stuff!

Whine and Cry or Cap and Trade

Or, Is putting a price tag on greenhouse gasses the only way to slow greenhouse gas emissions? Is there something inherently wrong (or right) with this approach?
You can’t change the very nature and underlying culture of a nation in less than a decade. It just isn’t possible. But, a decade is all the [...]

Who Cares if the Arctic is Warming?

Who cares about climate change? Polar bears care. Or at least they would if they had the ability to understand the depth of the problem. Their habitat is shrinking, and there is little that we can do about it. By 2050, two-thirds of the current population of Polar Bears will [...]

Chicago Climate Exchange: Cap and Trade, the Wave of the Future

The Chicago Climate Exchange is one of the coolest, and boldest, ideas to combat global climate change that I’ve seen in years. It has essentially created a market in buying and selling CO2 emissions, that is, a cap and trade system.
CCX emitting Members make a voluntary but legally binding commitment to meet annual GHG [...]