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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.

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July 29, 2008

A party animal

Category: Mammals

This is a pen-tailed tree shrew, Ptilocercus lowii, a Malaysian critter that weighs only 47g but can drink the pound-for-pound equivalent of nine glasses of wine without any ill-effect when it sups on the alcoholic nectar of the bertam...

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July 28, 2008

Monday Mustelid #23

Category: Monday Mustelid

Your Monday Mustelid is the Patagonian weasel, Lyncodon patagonicus (de Blainville 1842). Unfortunately, I can't find a picture of the little blighter anywhere. Instead, here's a picture of a Eurasian badger (Meles meles) cub ......

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July 27, 2008

Book Review: Stoczkowski “Explaining Human Origins”

Category: Evolution

(This review appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 2005) As human beings, we like to tell stories--we are story-telling apes. As scientists, however, we tend not to see ourselves as telling stories for, we are led to...

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July 26, 2008

Book Review: Forsdyke “The Origin of Species Revisited”

Category: Books

(A review from Journal of the History of Biology 2004) In the years following the publication of Origin of Species, George Romanes developed his theory of physiological selection in which he posited that "physiological peculiarities" lead to hybrid sterility between...

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July 25, 2008

Book Review: Two books on science & religion

Category: Books

(Another book review, this time from 2002 and the Journal of the History of Biology. Both books are still in print and worth reading) The simplicity (and adversarial nature) of the phrase "science versus religion" belies the diversity of ways...

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The stupid, it burns.

Category: Bits and Pieces

The ever anonymous "PhysioProf" has managed to slander the whole medical profession.  Orac, Mark Hoofnagle, and PalMD (who actually know something about medicine) rightly call shennanigans. As Mark notes: In medicine, we take attitudes like this towards students and doctors...

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July 24, 2008

Another book list

Category: Books

There's another one of those book lists circulating - a list of 100 works of which it is claimed that the average American has read only six. Whether that is true or not (and Chad doesn't believe it), the list...

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July 23, 2008

Book Review: Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

Category: Books

(Another review that was published a few years back, in this case in Isis in 2001. Alter's book is still in print and still worth reading.) Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was written in a vivid style and, as...

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July 22, 2008

On the Origin of Species

Category: Bits and Pieces

Wordle for Darwin's Origin of Species. [Clickie for biggie.]...

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On Steve Fuller

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

Over at Crooked Timber they are discussing a review of Steve Fuller's latest expectoration Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism. As the review notes: The book is an epoch-hopping parade of straw men, incompetent reasoning and outright gibberish,...

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