Category: Science
Circadian Rhythms: “Nature’s Intricate Clockwork”
Research is unveiling layers of complexity in the systems that allow plants, animals and humans to keep time. Here are some recent developments.
Dear Professor Barash, No One — No One! — Denies the Interconnectedness of All Life
There’s a certain insouciant ignorance that seems to go along with being an ardent Darwin enthusiast.
In The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell Explains the Inability of Disorganized Systems to Effect “Design”
If the network model is so bad at “design” in the human realm, why expect it to be any better in the realm of evolutionary history?
Huffington Post Author Invents Claims about Explore Evolution and Pop-Paleontology
Some critics find it easier to attack a book by inventing claims about what it says than by reading the book and responding to what’s actually in it.
Read Your References Carefully: Paul McBride’s Prized Citation on Skull-Sizes Supports My Thesis, Not His
There’s a reason why McBride focuses his response so heavily on skull sizes — it’s a rare characteristic for which there’s some consistent kind of a trajectory over time.