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The September issue of the Carnival of Evolution is online now at The End of the Pier Show. Okay, it’s not as glamorous as the better known September issue, but it’s still the number one spot for a month’s worth of online writing about descent with modification and all its scientific, cultural, and political ramifications. A few highlights:

• ItTakes30 on the cool new study of cooperation in biofilm-forming bacteria.
• Zen Faulkes on how tiny worms evade an ensnaring fungus.
• Jerry Coyne points out a probable case of sympatric speciation in palms.