Is China Breeding Genetically Engineered Geniuses? - Will Oremus, Slate

Sexual reproduction is a genetic crapshoot. Out of hundreds of eggs and millions of sperm, one joins one to produce a baby whose natural endowments could reflect the best traits of both...

DarwinTunes: Music Shaped by Artificial Selection - Evelyn Lamb, SciAm

Public tastes may exert a kind of "natural selection" that improves music's appeal—up to a point—finds a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Cavefish Evolved Toxin Resistance by Religious Selection - Science Daily

A centuries-old religious ceremony of an indigenous people in southern Mexico has led to small evolutionary changes in a local species of fish, according to researchers from Texas A&M...