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What Should John Scopes Have Taught His Students About Human Evolution?
Eugenic racism in 1925 was consensus science. Would Jerry Coyne have Scopes teach the consensus, or the controversy?
Bullies-R-Us: How “Freethought Oasis” Threatened “Disruption” and Pressured a College into Cancelling Intelligent Design Course
The outline of this story is now, sadly, a familiar one.
An Anthropologist Looks at Wallace and Darwin
Kathleen Bolling Lowrey examines the intellectual supports of modern evolutionary biology and singles out the weakest among them.
Butterfly Speciation: Mountains from Molehills
A study comparing genomes of three closely related butterflies makes bold claims about evolution in general.
The Multiverse: Where Everything Turns Out to Be True, Except Philosophy and Religion
Multiverse cosmologists look out on a bright future, freed from the demands of evidence.