Jenny Ashford
Jenny Ashford is a writer and graphic artist from central Florida. Her main area of interest in her Suite 101 articles is science, with a particular emphasis on genetics and evolution, a topic on which she considers herself an educated layman. In addition, her short horror fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including History Is Dead, ChimeraWorld #3 and ChimeraWorld #4, and 2012AD. Her first book of short stories, Hopeful Monsters, was published in September 2009, her first novel, Bellwether, was published by Damnation Books in December 2010, and a second book of short stories, The Associated Villainies, was released in October 2011.
Since she has an unquenchable desire to know everything in the world that it is possible to know, she reads incessantly about any available topic, with an emphasis on evolutionary biology, art history, physics, sociology, film, religion, politics, linguistics, crime, and biographies of musicians and writers. She also dabbles in painting, perfumery, making playing cards, and designing stationery.
Latest Articles
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Infertility Mutation Common in Males
A newly discovered gene variation causes lowered fertility. The mutant allele of gene DEFB 126 may be carried in the genome of as many as half of all men.
Jul 21, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Human Population May Have Almost Split Into Two Species
Genetic evidence suggests a temporary branching and subsequent recombination in early human lineage.
Jul 6, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Primate Evolution Spurred By Snakes?
The relationship between snakes and pre-humans may have compelled particular adaptations, including improved vision.
Jun 29, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Human Evolution Has Recently Been Speeding Up
Over the past 5,000 years, the human genome has evolved at a rate far faster than at any other time in its history.
Jun 21, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Human Evolution and the Domestication of Animals
Ancient humans' relationship with companion animals may have spurred evolution in more ways than one.
Jun 7, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Previously Unknown Fossil Primate Found in Texas
Small proto-simian strengthens Eocene link between North American and East Asian land masses.
May 31, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Evolution Still Not Taught at Many Public Schools
Controversy over religious ideas and teachers not sufficiently trained in the subject ensure that evolution gets short shrift in classrooms.
May 27, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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So-Called 'Nutcracker Man' Probably Didn't Eat Nuts
New findings show this early hominid's diet was far different from what was previously thought.
May 17, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Findings Suggest Neanderthals Were Probably Cannibals
Fossils from Spain indicate Neanderthals ate one another to stave off starvation, or simply as a cultural norm.
May 10, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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Ancient Humans, Right-Handedness, and Language
Fossils indicate right-handed dominance in human ancestors and suggest early brain asymmetry.
May 3, 2011
- Jenny Ashford
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