Colonizing Mars Could Speed up Human Evolution Discover By Joshua Rapp Learn Oct 2, 2021 https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/colonizing-mars-could-speed-up-human-evolution

I am excited to announce that I will be speaking at Web Summit, an enormous science and technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal from November 4-7, 2019! https://websummit.com/ 

I’ve been quoted in several recent articles and news stories… In a recent opinion piece for Medium, Neil Theise and Maureen Seaberg ask whether, when it comes to developing off-earth colonies, we have put the rocket before the proverbial horse. Mike Brown interviewed me for a widely cited piece in Inverse about how colonizing Mars […]

I’m one of several scientists featured in this episode of “Crowd Science” by the BBC World Service. My segment begins at 18:00 but I recommend listening to the whole episode as it is very well done. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz1sz

Today I gave two guest presentations at Kountze High School, in the heart of the Big Thicket region of east Texas, about our research on local ants. The students enjoyed hearing about the ways in which ants– like people–have been struggling to rebuild after the devastating flooding from Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. Thanks to […]

I am very excited to announce that my latest project, a complete digital course on the modern science of evolution, is now available through The Great Courses! It consists of 24 videos, each 30 minutes in length, on topics including: – Darwin’s ideas and how he developed them – how evolution can be rapid – […]

I recently returned from a field research trip to Costa Rica where I worked with a fantastic team of collaborators (including both physicists and biologists) at the University of Costa Rica to understand traffic flow in leafcutter anta. Here are few pictures from our time at La Selva Biological Station.  

I wrote a piece for NBC News MACH about how climate change could affect human evolution. One of the possible ways this could happen is by driving large scale migrations that would result in population mixing (what biologists call gene flow). This would likely cause human populations to become more similar to one another. Could […]

There was a lot of coverage this week of the research Tom Miller, Sarah Bengston, and I are doing this year to investigate how severe flooding from Hurricane Harvey affected native and non-native ant communities in the Big Thicket region of east Texas. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180326213310.htm https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Hurricane-Harvey-fire-ants-Houston-Rice-University-12783050.php Months After Harvey, Another Flood: One Of Fire Ants  

Science Books and Films (a division of the AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science) has named Future Humans as a “Best Book of 2017”! http://www.sbfonline.com/Documents/2017BestBooks.pdf