Evolution:
Posted on May 6, 2008 6:21 PM • 2 Comments
Hofstra University solicits submissions for an interdisciplinary conference titled "Darwin’s Reach: A Celebration of Darwin’s Legacy across Academic Disciplines," to be held March 12-14, 2009. Primatologist Frans de Waal, paleontologist Niles Eldredge, and Judge John Jones (who wrote the Dover...
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Posted on April 17, 2008 7:05 PM • 1 Comments
A few days back I took on Denyse O’Leary’s "science journalism by press release" modus operandi. Now, T. Ryan Gregory has taken on the same press release while dispelling the "early branching equals primitive" fallacy that underlies O’Leary’s claims. Wander...
Posted on April 13, 2008 4:07 PM • 1 Comments
Predictably, Denyse O’Leary is getting all excited about a paper in this week’s Nature that finds Ctenophora (comb jellies) to be the first multicellular branch off the Tree of Life, a divergence that precedes that of the relatively simpler sponges....
Posted on April 10, 2008 11:58 PM • 7 Comments
John Wilkins and I have been at the Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects workshop here in Salt Lake City for the past few days. John live-blogged some of the talks, so you may want to check his posts out....
Posted on March 15, 2008 5:31 PM • 0 Comments
Yesterday I took John Wilkins to the Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight exhibit at the Arizona Natural History Museum. It was a wonderful opportunity to see 30+ fossils from China along with assorted models and recreations, particularly...
Posted on March 10, 2008 2:55 AM • 2 Comments
Unlike Razib, my reading of Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory isn’t progressing. This is for a number of reasons but primary among them is a busy week service-wise coupled with other reading that must take priority if I’m going...
Posted on January 31, 2008 10:23 PM • 0 Comments
DESIGNING DARWIN - Prize competition Organized by the British Society for the History of Science Outreach & Education Committee The year 2009 sees both the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (on 12th February) and the 150th birthday of his most...
Posted on January 30, 2008 7:55 PM • 0 Comments
Razib is reading Stephen Jay Gould’s monumental The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. I have to admit that I bought it when it appeared nearly six years ago and, as yet, have not managed to get beyond the first ninety-odd...
Posted on January 28, 2008 11:38 PM • 14 Comments
By way of GrrlScientist, I notice that Fieldiana (the journal of the Field Museum is now freely available online. This means that DD Davis’ classic study "The giant panda: a morphological study of evolutionary mechanisms" of 1964 can now be...
Posted on January 25, 2008 7:29 PM • 1 Comments
Today sees the formal start of the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference, an event which I unfortunately cannot attend. Instead of spending my Friday with Bora and other science bloggers, I was giving a public talk titled "Evolution Is...
Posted on January 19, 2008 1:31 PM • 7 Comments
Elliot Sober has a new book coming out this year, Evidence and Evolution; The Logic Behind the Science. The book is divided into four sections: The Concept of Evidence, Intelligent Design, Natural Selection, and Common Ancestry. Below are the contents...
Posted on January 13, 2008 6:43 PM • 1 Comments
Just discovered that the Arizona Natural History Museum (in Mesa) will be featuring the "Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight" exhibit come March 1st. Sweet! Some photos of a previous installation in San Diego are here (pdf) and just...
Posted on January 9, 2008 8:27 PM • 0 Comments
The National Academy of Sciences’ new book, Science, Evolution, and Creationism is now available for free download. It is a revision of an older work and features chapters on the nature of science, the evidence for evolution, and creationist claims....
Posted on January 3, 2008 4:04 PM • 2 Comments
I predict this may ruffle a few feathers. I don’t have time to comment myself, but I’m sure PZ, Jason and other can more than adequately weigh in. Avery Cardinal Dulles writes in the theo-con journal First Things: Science, however,...
Posted on September 13, 2007 5:41 PM • 16 Comments
This image released by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing shows front views of a new fossil panda skull, Ailuropoda microta, from Jinyin Cave, Guangxi, China, left, and a living giant panda skull, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, right....
Posted on June 18, 2007 6:45 PM • 3 Comments