Tag: cetaceans
Japanese Whaling and Human Exceptionalism
Japan has quit the International Whaling Commission so that it can resume commercial slaughter of leviathans.
Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah
If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center.
Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe’s Vindication
It’s been known for some time that bacteria evade antibiotics by mutating the target of the antibiotic, often at a cost to themselves.
From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition
Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.”
Adam and the Genome and Whale Fossils
We don’t find the “pattern” that evolution predicts “should be found in the fossil record at certain times.” Rather, we find that truly aquatic whales appear abruptly.