I've been working up a science talk for the fall — I am going to do a basic review of many the mechanisms other than selection that contribute to evolution for lay audiences. And then I discover that T. Ryan Gregory has already done some of the work for me.
Maybe I should just plagiarize it?
(No, not really: my talk is less genomics, more development, and gets more basic than this one. But Gregory's talk is very, very good.)
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Prof. PZ, have you seen this. The randomness is so appropriate ;)
http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/
Thank you for sharing this presentation. I look forward to your autumnal talk. You are an inspiring man, and I wish you the very best of good fortune 'til then and beyond.
Craig
PZ Myers is a bigoted moron.
http://postimage.org/image/5sjqe498x/full/