This article is part of Carl Coon’s ongoing “A Short History of Evolution” series. Read part 1 and part 2. Darwin, Natural Selection, and the Definition of Life Evolution as explained by Darwin is the... Read More

Hatred and fear of homosexuality has become more aggressive and normalized in many African countries, and for the second time this month, an African nation took a step backwards in terms of LGBTQ equality. Yesterday... Read More

This article is part of Carl Coon's ongoing "A Short History of Evolution" series. Click here to read Part 1. Entropy and Evolution Let's begin with cosmology. Cosmologists tell us the universe began almost 14 billion... Read More

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of The Humanist. Few could argue that the Internet hasn’t revolutionized gay life. A generation came out on the web, and the freedom to launch a... Read More

THERE'S A PROVERB often attributed to Euripides that warns: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Ellen Harrison knows what the ancients were on about. In 2008, in a moment of what she... Read More

This article is part of Carl Coon’s ongoing “A Short History of Evolution” series. Click here to read Part 2. Are there answers to the eternal questions of what we are and how we came... Read More

In anticipation of the 205th birthday of Charles Darwin, celebrated around the world on February 12th as Darwin Day, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (NJ) re-introduced a resolution on January 29, 2014 “expressing support for the... Read More