Author: Paul Nelson
On Paul Nelson Day 2014: The Target Problem
Thanks to P.Z. Myers’s annual lampoon of me, I’ve thought more deeply about the relationship between development and evolution than I ever expected to do.
On Neo-Darwinism, Denis Noble Puts It Bluntly (and Accurately)
At Why Evolution Is True, Jerry Coyne sputters with indignation that Oxford physiologist Noble had the effrontery to criticize textbook evolutionary theory.
When Nature Resists: Explaining the Origin of the Animal Phyla
Several years ago, PZ Myers inaugurated what he called “Paul Nelson Day” (April 7), his annual lampooning of me for my failure to articulate the concept of “ontogenetic depth.”
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #7, Peer-Reviewed Science Raises Doubts about Darwin
As soon as I read the paper’s abstract, my pulse quickened.
The Humpty-Dumpty Effect: A Revolutionary Paper with Far-Reaching Implications
A highly enriched soup of proteins and nucleic acids will never form a functional cell, even if lipid bilayer membranes were provided to help these materials become organized.