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Louis Agassiz + Alexander Agassiz + Charles Darwin + Coral Reefs = High Entertainment and Science!

Category: Charles Darwin

There are many fascinating stories linked to the early days of evolutionary biology and geology, and more than one of them is intertwined with our understanding of coral reefs. I had always thought that Darwin's interaction with the question of how coral reefs form was...

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"A new theory of evolution proves what Sarah Palin has always known: Darwin was a retard"

Category: Charles Darwin

As I predicted earlier today, various journalists are taking up the theme that "Darwin was wrong" because he did not predict that niches into which organisms evolved would be a major controlling feature in the overall pattern of evolution. But of course, he did, and...

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Natural Selection vs. Opportunity in Macroevolutionary Patterning of the Fossil Record

Category: Natural Selection

I'm going to talk about one or two peer reviewed papers, but in doing so, I'm going to have to say a few words ... and this will not be pretty ... about a certain science writer's report at the BBC.

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Charles Darwin and God

Category: Charles Darwin

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Science proves that God created everything out of nothing.

Category: Religion

I invite you to review this essay and comment on its veracity and validity.

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Pagel on Darwin

Category: Darwin

Mark Pagel, evolutionary theorist extraordinaire, has published an Insight piece in Nature on Natural selection 150 years on. Pagel, well known for myriad projects in natural selecition theory and adaptation, and for developing with Harvey the widely used statistical phylogenetic method (and for being a...

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The 150th on the blogosphere

Category: Darwin

Obviously, I'm doing it here in my own humble way, but here's a few other loci in the blogosphere (and elsewhere) you may visit if you just need more Darwin:

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Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?

Category: Charles Darwin

Perhaps we are all subject to falling into the trap of what I call the Hydraulic Theory of Everything. If you eat more you will be bigger, if you eat less you will be smaller. Emotional states are the continuously varying outcome of different levels...

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Reflections on the Origin of Species

Category: Agassiz

The The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin was published 150 years go as I write this. At the time, several different alternative theories of the origin and history of life were being discussed in the West. Some of these theories were theological. Theological ideas...

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Visit the NSF's Evolution of Evolution Web Site

Category: Charles Darwin

Honoring the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, Evolution of Evolution: 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" is a multi-disciplinary one-stop-shop of resources on evolution and Darwin himself that are available nowhere else--including eye-catching graphics; captivating interviews and essays by...

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