Obligatory Readings of the Day: Darwin and Evolution

Olivia Judson has, so far, posted four parts of her Darwin series. We ("we" meaning "bloggers' including myself) have already commented on some of these, but here is the entire series (so far, I hope there will be more) for ease of use:

Darwinmania!

An Original Confession

Let's Get Rid of Darwinism

A Natural Selection

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I've never liked the term "Darwinism." To me it has always been more of a watchword that might indicate that I was talking to a creationist, a term I generally do not encounter unless I'm reading or hearing an argument against a straw-man version of evolution. (I'm not a big fan of "evolutionist,"…
Olivia Judson is absolutely right - let's get rid of the terms "Darwinist" and "Darwinism". She writes, among else: I'd like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the…
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