Author: Paul Nelson
Evolution Used the Same Molecular Toolkit? Common Sense from Jonathan Marks
Marks is an evolutionary biologist/anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, and an uncommonly plain speaker and writer.
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.