Month: May 2017
Two Days After Warning Against “Anti-Science” Label, Nature Calls Academic Freedom “Anti-Science”
From the headline of the piece you might think you were reading some online tabloid.
“Cookies on the Bottom Shelf”: Interrogating Jonathan Wells
We celebrated the release of Jonathan Wells’s new book Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution last month at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo.
Latest Homo naledi Bones Are Younger than Expected
In 1982, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall noted that it is a “myth that the evolutionary histories of living beings are essentially a matter of discovery.”
Prairie Dogs “Talk”…and Plants “Hear” – More Reasons for Dumping Humankind’s Unique Place in Nature?
Plants respond to light, but they do not “see.”
Dogs Communicate, So Do Prairie Dogs – So?
It’s all in the spin, isn’t it? Chirping chipmunks – sorry, prairie dogs – knock down the “the last bastion encircling human exceptionalism.”