Evolution:
So, there's this video. It's apparently for a German electronics retailer whose motto is, roughly translated, "We hate expensive". Phil thought it looked really kewl. P-Zed agreed, but he said that it portrayed evolution as a linear progression along a...
Posted on January 5, 2009 12:36 PM • 3 Comments •
How about a blog carnival devoted to the union of evolution and medicine? Coming from the perspective of an individual who conducts medical research in evolutionary genetics, I have found that very few people outside of the world I work...
Posted on December 30, 2008 11:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Wondering about those "strengths and weaknesses" in evolution which well-meaning concerned citizens are demanding be taught? We know about the strengths: nothing in biology makes the damndest bit of sense without evolution, and if you neglect its effects, people die....
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Posted on December 16, 2008 12:20 PM • 3 Comments •
I haven't yet seen the new The Day the Earth Stood Still movie. Generally speaking, I haven't been terribly speedy about seeing movies as they come out; sometimes, I just wait until they're available on mplayer. The reviews have not...
Posted on December 15, 2008 9:18 AM • 9 Comments •
A high-school student in Franklin County, Virginia drew media attention when a school administrator refused to allow his "opinion piece" on biological evolution to appear in the school's news magazine, but it now appears that the essay in question was...
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Posted on December 14, 2008 3:24 PM • 7 Comments •
The Immortal Storm of daily life.
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Posted on November 12, 2008 10:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Because there's nothing we love so much as ourselves.
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Posted on November 10, 2008 9:30 AM • 35 Comments •
The following post is an edited and expanded version of the one which first appeared here. I've written before about the different ways people define the word Darwinism and its close relatives. The short version is that American biologists and...
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Posted on November 3, 2008 10:23 AM • 4 Comments •
The evolution and ecology of spatially distributed populations is a confusing field to study, since nobody seems to be fully aware of the work which other people are doing. In a way, this mirrors the systems being studied: spreading a...
Posted on October 29, 2008 9:29 AM • 0 Comments •
What we need, and what we're missing.
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Posted on October 21, 2008 9:36 AM • 6 Comments •
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