Tag: common ancestry
State Science Standards and You: Utah in Focus
While discussions of science standards are often couched in bureaucratic-sounding language, the impact of these policies can be profound.
Only Religionists Doubt Darwin? The Case of C.S. Lewis
If this were true, it would cast suspicion on the skeptics who, so goes this line of insinuation, are motivated by their passion to believe.
Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder
Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.
Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks
Molecular clocks are a relatively simple concept.
A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions
Winston Ewert recently published a paper in BIO-Complexity suggesting that life is better explained by a dependency graph than by a phylogenetic tree.