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Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
What might have been a plausible idea in the 17th or 18th century is the starting point for a just published paper in PNAS....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:32 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
As the mother cougar approached the flood and all hope seemed to diminish, the narrator said "The mother cougar, driven by an instinct to save her species, searched desperately for any sign of the third kitten, who represented the next generation of cougars."
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:59 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
There many ways of dividing up and categorizing Natural Selection. For example, there are the trichotomies of Natural Selection, Sexual Selection and Artificial Selection, and Modes of Selection (Stabilizing, Directional, and Disruptive) trichotomy. We sense that these are good because they are "threes" and "three"...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:09 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Natural Selection
Natural Selection is the key creative force in evolution. Natural selection, together with specific histories of populations (species) and adaptations, is responsible for the design of organisms. Most people have some idea of what Natural Selection is. However, it is easy to make conceptual errors...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:09 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
Another look at falsehoods about evolution....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:15 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
In my initial s.php">list of Falsehoods, I included these two closely related items: Evolution has stopped for humans; and Serious scientists often entertain the question: "Has evolution stopped for humans?" I'll make the distinction between them clear eventually. For now, let's focus on the first:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:55 AM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
Biology is harder to learn than quantum physics. Why? Because most people think they totally get biology, but everyone knows nobody gets quantum physics. Therefore, any effort to explore quantum physics will result in new learning, but people rarely learn new biology. The bottom line...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:07 PM • 157 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
A theory like this can evolve into a zombie that will eat the brains of science geeks, graduate students, and others, for decades
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:36 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Earth Science
...the self-righteous politics at any cost, "if the president does it it is legal" attitude of the 1970s right wing has moved off the stage over recent decades, and most of the practitioners of that attitude (many in prison) moved with it. So what was Buchanan doing on your show?
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:28 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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