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February 28, 2006
Category: Evolution
Here is a popular press piece on Geert Vermaij's paper in PNAS where he argues that evolution is not highly contingent process on particular historical events, in other words, if you rewound the clock and let it flow the rivers...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:05 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2006
Category: Blog
This new Science Blog is hilarious. I love their tagline! Update: OK, I take it back. What kind of dreamworld do these bitches think they're living in? I post something EDT giving props to their blog, and they're still on...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:59 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
Just found this web site that has a good bibliography of R.A. Fisher's work. Good supplement to the R.A. Fisher digital archive. Why do I obsess with Fisher? First, ANOVA is ubiquitous. Second, stories like this would shock & awe...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:49 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2006
Category: Creationism
Nathanial Blake, editor of the conservative campus publication at Oregon State University, has a good piece addressing the issue of evolution and evangelicals over at the Town Hall website. He points out that even C.S. Lewis, that exemplar of modern...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:57 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2006
Category: Creationism
Norm Levitt throws an excellent broadside against Steve Fuller (yes, it is a polemic, but a delicious one!). Update: Ron in the comments suggests we be cautious about accepting Levitt's jeremiad in its totality. He concludes: And from our own...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:19 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blog
...eat birdz :) ...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2006
Category: Culture
I've been blogging a lot about "religion" recently, but I haven't reallly spelled out what I mean by religion. The answer is many things. Religion, or religious belief and practice, are a suite of behaviors and concepts which explore a...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:29 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
The "standard model" of intellectual history presents the Presocratics as the pioneers of naturalistic explanations of the universe around us. This narrative explains how the messy natural philosophy of the Presocratics gave way to the more metaphysical and ethical schools...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:35 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2006
Category: Cognitive Science
A few science bloggers have referred to Daniel Dennett's new book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, and the controversy that is erupting around it. I haven't read the book, but this piece in The Boston Globe gives...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:10 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
I have a review of Nick Wade's Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors coming out in the May/June issue of Science & Spirit magazine. Wade's book covered the intersection of genetics and human evolution, so it...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:43 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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