Category: Evolution
National Highways Are Good. How about a National Science Education?
According to the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), they’re “cringing in Kansas” over the latest skirmish in the long war over science education in public schools.
Nothing in Biology Geology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution Geosynclinal Theory
If it were a character in horror and fantasy literature, Darwinian evolutionary theory would be called a lich.
Predicting the Formation of Virtually Identical Species
A new study in Nature claims that scientists can predict the extent to which a clade will speciate by studying its environmental niche and the prevalence of sexual selection.
Bateman’s Sexual Selection: Another Darwinian Pillar Falls
It was a classic experiment that generated a catchy phrase and launched a paradigm.
Richard Dawkins on Darwin-Doubting Undergraduate Student: “Little Fool” Is a “Pathetic Little Idiot”
If you want to get skeptical students to learn about evolution, Dawkins’s methods are probably the worst possible way to go about doing that.