The Dog Zombie

A week or so ago I encountered a letter to the editor in our local newspaper that made me peevish. Its author opined that chickens have b...

I’m writing a peer-reviewed article right now. I can almost guarantee it’s something pretty much none of you will be interested in (it is no...

The other day I was re-reading the original dog genome paper, as you do. This is the paper published in 2005 to accompany the release of the...

Summer before last, I taught my first online classes, in introductory and behavioral genetics. It was a ton of fun and I learned a lot abou...

I turn 42 today. (This year, I will be the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.) Jack, my golden retriever, is 14 or 15 — an old ma...

Puppy cuteness! Ever wondered why puppies make and generalize associations so much more easily than adult dogs? Why it is so important t...

I had intended to cover some more researcher heroes of my world before switching over to the brilliant science communicators. But then Ed Yo...