Category: Evolution
Vertebrate Gene Expression and Other Properties Don’t Support a “Phylotypic” Stage
The pharyngula, or phylotpyic stage is such an icon of Darwinian argumentation that the popular atheist blogger PZ Myers named his blog after it.
The Fall of Australopithecus sediba: Controversy and Doubt Cloud Claims of Human Ancestry
“How, and why, did we evolve from apes?” This is the question posed to children by South African paleoanthropologist Lee Berger.
A Cordial Invitation to Jerry Coyne: Please Debate With Us at ENV
University of Chicago biologist Dr. Coyne takes umbrage at the fact that we don’t generally allow comments.
A New Gene Fits in Without a Ripple
A recent paper in Science examined a modified-duplicate gene in a species of fruit fly and concluded that it developed a vital role in the organism in the past 15 million years.
Darwin Defenders and the Technique of the False Equation
It was a novelty for me to find Jerry Coyne and his Darwin-blogging cohort Jason Rosenhouse advance a false equation that dispenses with the usual boogeyman, creationism.