Tag: butterflies
For Labor Day Weekend: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man
Take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory.
Encore Performances in the Design of Life
News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian.
Inexplicable Species and the Theory of Evolution
Man has been searching for fossils, or stumbling upon them, for millennia.
“Make Mine Dill”
What amazes me is how the female butterflies can smell dill over great distances, and so deposit their eggs on the right plants.
Butterfly Mystery Solved
The dill and parsley plants in our box garden are loaded with black swallowtail caterpillars.