Category: Evolution
Rescuing Darwin: Another Major Problem with Peter Bowler’s Counterfactual History
We should not deny the obvious historical connections between Darwinism and other historical events, no matter how unsavory they may be.
Did Darwinism Give Birth to Social Darwinism?
Peter Bowler’s new book, Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin, asks a counterfactual historical question: What if Darwin had died before formulating his theory?
A One-Man Clade
Had Stephen Meyer better appreciated the tools of modern cladistics, Nick Matzke believes, he would not have drawn the conclusions that he did in his book Darwin’s Doubt, or argued as he had.
How "Sudden" Was the Cambrian Explosion? Nick Matzke Misreads Stephen Meyer and the Paleontological Literature; New Yorker Recycles Misrepresentation
Ironically, the rarity of genes and proteins in sequence space means that even thirty million years is not nearly enough time for the neo-Darwinian mechanism to generate a new gene or protein, much less a new animal form.
Exon Shuffling: Evaluating the Evidence
Yesterday, I introduced the subject of exon shuffling and gave a few reasons why such a mechanism cannot explain the origins of the earliest, most ancient proteins.