Can You Smell Personality? | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network

We just started talking about the evolution of social behavior in class today (April 3, 2013).  We also discuss in class how something olfactory cues can help us choose mates that are immunologically different from ourselves, so potential offspring may have better immunity against diseases.  This article/blog post addresses some of the more social cues…

Domestication of Chickens

This one is for my dad, who loves chickens. In the December 2012 edition of Heredity (Miao et al., 2012), there was an article published about the evolutionary history of chickens. It’s a good article and a good topic to learn about phylogenetic trees, too. Humans have been raising chickens for a long time–in fact,…