Of Monkeys and Men The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal Lawrence M. Krauss 23 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
Razib Khan Answers My Most Controversial Questions About Genetics: Quillette Cetera Episode 30 A conversation with geneticist and writer Razib Khan. Zoe Booth / Razib Khan 23 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
The Unexpected Benefits of Artificial Intimacy: Quillette Cetera Episode 21 An interview with evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks about the positive aspects of AI lovers. Zoe Booth 29 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Male or Female: There's Nothing In Between Since the dawn of our species, the evolution of two distinct sexes has been fundamental to human reproduction. There is no such thing as a ‘sex spectrum.’ Zachary A. Elliott 25 Sep 2023 · 17 min read
Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Lawrence M. Krauss 18 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
When Animals Shed Their Wings Worker ants can sprout wings—but don’t. Ant and termite queens destroy theirs after mating. Many island birds evolve into flightlessness. Can evolution explain why? Richard Dawkins 5 May 2022 · 7 min read
Diamonds Aren't Forever (And Neither is Your Love) Diamond is the most valuable, not only of precious stones, but of all things in this world. ~Pliny The Elder Loving someone, and having them love you back, is the most precious thing in the world. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook At age 11, I first glimpsed the bewildering anthropologic spectacle Rob Brooks 17 Feb 2022 · 14 min read
Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College. Stephen Warren 21 Jan 2022 · 17 min read
Naturally Selective: Female Orgasm and Female Sexual Selection Female orgasms themselves could, once again, be roughly divided into being located either deep inside or comparatively on the surface. Robert King 7 Jan 2022 · 9 min read
PODCAST 103: Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move Evolutionary Biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move Quillette / Colin Wright 8 Aug 2020 · 1 min read
The New Evolution Deniers by Colin Wright Greg Ellis reads The New Evolution Deniers, Colin Wright’s essay about how the denial of evolutionary biology has migrated from the Christian Right to the secular Left. It was published in Quillette on 30th November 2018. Quillette 6 Jun 2019 · 1 min read
The New Evolution Deniers The massive social media website Twitter—the central hub for cultural discourse and debate—is now actively banning users for stating true facts about basic human biology. Colin Wright 30 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
How Animal Genes Go into Battle to Dominate Their Offspring One consequence of these genetic battles is the effect on reproductive compatibility within a species. Constantino de Jesus Macias Garcia and Michael Ritchie 10 Sep 2017 · 5 min read