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dr. dolittle | July 17, 2012Check out the new TV series on Nat Geo Wild called "Freaks and Creeps." The host is Lucy Cooke, a National Geographic Explorer and zoologist who trained under Richard Dawkins. In the show, Lucy explores what many would consider unusual animals and tries to figure out why they would be considered freaks or creeps.
You can see a teaser of some of the animals that will appear on the show here.
The premier episode is tonight. Can't wait!
razib | August 24, 2009
A month ago Larry Moran made reference to Fern Elsdon Baker's new book, The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy. Moran was a bit disappointed by the previews, his pet hobby-horse being the revolutionary impact of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, while Elsdon-Baker seems rather fixated on the potential of Neo-Lamarckism, especially epigenetics. Well, I've read the book, and Larry Moran would probably be disappointed, though she mentions Stephen Jay Gould and pluralism a bit, there's really very little engagement with the 20th century debates in evolutionary…