Category: Evolution
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Anatomy
The argument from evolutionary developmental biology and embryonic development is probably one of the stronger for common descent. But I’m not convinced.
Kin Selection Goes to Kindergarten
Cynics would call this kin selection or perhaps love of candy. I’d call it genuine love.
Textbooks Cherry-Pick the Evidence for Evolution
This article will look at a just a few of the many distressing instances where textbooks overstate or misrepresent the evidence for evolution.
Corticosteroid Receptors in Vertebrates: Luck or Design?
Based on new research by Joseph Thornton and Sean Carroll and colleagues, it increasingly appears that either we are very lucky or we are intelligently designed.
Darwinian Dogmatism Permeates Recent Biology Textbooks
Many textbooks surveyed contained what I would call “faux-critical thinking exercises,” where students are asked to investigate the evidence, but only in a one-sided fashion.