Stories by Sean B. Carroll

Sean B. Carroll is Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His latest book is A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance the Making of the Planet Life (Princeton University Press).

Policy & Ethics

The Denialist Playbook

On vaccines, evolution, and more, rejection of science has followed a familiar pattern

November 8, 2020 — Sean B. Carroll | Opinion

Conservation

How Two Kinds of Regulation Brought Back the Manatee

The massive marine mammal's numbers have increased by 400 percent in the past quarter-century—and it's not the only such success story

April 22, 2016 — Sean B. Carroll

Evolution

Is America Evolving on Evolution?

As we celebrate Darwin’s birthday on February 12, there is some positive news about Americans’ views

February 11, 2014 — Sean B. Carroll

The Sciences

Regulating Evolution

Switches within DNA that govern when and where genes are turned on enable genomes to generate the great diversity of animal forms from very similar sets of genes

May 5, 2008 — Sean B. Carroll, Nicolas Gompel and Benjamin Prudhomme