Category: Evolution
Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution
Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19.
Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution
Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations?
Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace
Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes.
Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System
This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting.
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”
When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings.