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Thinking of Animal Rights on Father’s Day
Apes can’t read, but you can.
Math Meets Music
The Golden Ratio is not only aesthetically pleasing in art and architecture, it is found throughout nature in sunflowers, conch shells and spiral galaxies.
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.