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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.
Apparently Mycocepurus smithii doesn't. It has become the first ant species to dispense completely with males. More details here. (The picture above - from the Daily Mail story - is actually by Alex Wild but is unattributed)...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:41 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I'm currently reading Hoelldobler & Wilson’s The Superorganism and just ran across this post by Alex Wild which claims that the whole section of The Superorganism devoted to the evolutionary history of ants is muddy, incoherent, and entirely at odds...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:40 PM • •
Most readers probably have heard of Michael Egnor, the DI's pet neurosurgeon. Egnor has been harping on about what he perceives as the lack of utility of evolution - which he, of course, equates with "Darwinism" - in medicine since...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:31 PM • •
Joe Cain and Michael Ruse have edited a volume, Descended from Darwin: Insights into American Evolutionary Studies 1925-1950, that has been published by the American Philosophical Society. Thanks to a grant from the APS, the complete volume is available for...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:25 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Review of a new edition of Origin.
Posted by John Lynch at 1:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anti-evolution
February is going to be a busy month for me. Sunday I leave for Oklahoma where I will be giving the lead-off public lecture for their Darwin 2009 Celebration. I will be speaking on the 12th at the Sam Noble...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Nick Matzke over at PT has just made me aware that Mike Majerus had passed away after a sudden illness. Those of us who have followed the ID issue will know Majerus from the studies he did of melanism in...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:33 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
I’m quoted in a press release regarding a teacher training workshop (the “Evolution Challenges Workshop”) we’re giving at ASU to help middle and high school teachers teach evolution. Money quotes: Studies have shown that “16 percent of high school biology...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:24 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
An interesting looking paper has just appeared online by John Beatty and Eric Cyr Desjardins that looks at the importance of history in determining form. The abstract reads: In “Spandrels,” Gould and Lewontin criticized what they took to be an...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Ed reports on a putative new species of iguana that has been found on the Galapagos archipelago. Darwin saw two species (one marine and one land). We now have two additional land species, the Barrington land iguana Conolophus pallidus...
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