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(Darwins's notebooks) include many statements showing that he espoused but feared to expose something he perceived as far more heretical than evolution itself: philosophical materialism -- the postulate that matter is the stuff of all existence and that all mental and spiritual phenomena are its by-products.

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Evolution:

There Will Be Blood?

Category: Evolution

I was on Skeptically Speaking this week, weirdly and uncomfortably talking about the evolution of menstruation. I barrelled ahead anyway, even though I've got a Y chromosome and am not a member of the club. Fortunately, they also had Kate...

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One Carnival of Evolution, coming right up

Category: Evolution

I've been naughty and neglecting to announce these things, so let's start correcting that: here's the 44th Carnival of Evolution. (Also on FtB)...

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Good hair turns out to be a poor science educator

Category: Creationism

The requirements to be a TV weather presenter are fairly slack: an undergraduate degree with some training in meteorology is preferred, but not required, and the main skills seem to be looking presentable with nice hair, being able to dance...

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We still haven't explained pink

Category: Bad science

There was something else that bugged me in that odd claim from Ben Radford that girls would just naturally like pink better than boys: it was the terrible evpsych rationale for it that just made no sense. First was the...

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Protists, not animals

Category: Evolution

I've written about the spectacular phospatized embryos of the Doushantuo formation before. It's a collection of exceptionally well preserved small multicellular organisms, so well preserved that we can even look at cellular organelles. And they're pre-Cambrian, as much as 630...

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Why do women menstruate?

Category: Reproduction

Menstruation is a peculiar phenomenon that women go through on a roughly monthly cycle, and it's not immediately obvious from an evolutionary standpoint why they do it. It's wasteful — they are throwing away a substantial amount of blood...

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Creationist abuse of cuttlefish chitin

Category: Creationism

A few weeks ago, PLoS One published a paper on the observation of preserved chitin in 34 million year old cuttlebones. Now the Institute for Creation Research has twisted the science to support their belief that the earth is less...

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Gals and show mares

Category: Creationism

This video has been going around — it's a group of women talking about the importance of evolution to the biological sciences. I confess to cringing in a few places — there's too much ready equation of evolution with natural...

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Anti-caturday post

Category: Evolution

There is actually a cat in this video. Notice, though, that it only appears briefly in the beginning, looks bored, and apathetically wanders off screen. Why? Because the rest of the video features something far more exciting and bizarre...

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How many genes does it take to make a squid eye?

Category: Science

This is an article about cephalopods and eye evolution, but I have to confess at the beginning that the paper it describes isn't all that interesting. I don't want you to have excessive expectations! I wanted to say a few...

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