Author: David Coppedge
Rescuing Chance for Darwinism
When papers claim that Darwinism works by selecting unspecified and unplanned variations, do their best empirically studied examples demonstrate it?
Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers
The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.”
Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized
An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation.
Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor
What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes?
Quorum Sensing: A Clever Trick by Microbes
Robot designers are learning tricks from bacteria: how to communicate with and respond to other unseen members of a swarm.