Category: Evolution
Methinks He Is Like a Dawkins: Prominent RNA World Researcher Michael Yarus Commits Famous “Weasel” Blunder
“To suggest how Darwinian evolution can surf across supposed oceans of improbability, I have set up a mutation-selection demonstration.”
We Get Love from Leading Darwinist Group Blog
Yeah, that’s right, and seemingly without irony either.
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Observed Natural Selection
The online encyclopedia triumphantly points to resistance to myxoma virus among Australian rabbits as one piece of evidence, among others, for common descent.
Waste Not, Want Not: Chimps Show the Way to Higher Development
Followers of news from the world of evolution research are abuzz over a new study, and it’s only partly because of the opportunity for putting some mild potty talk in your headlines.
Rallying to Darwin’s Defense: Robert J. Richards and the Historical Record
Richards argues that “Darwinian evolutionary theory held no special place within the community of biologists supportive of National Socialism…and officials in that party utterly rejected Darwinian theory.”