Tag: Darwin
Putting a Contemporary Face on Darwin-Inspired Eugenics
The victims profiled here were mostly deemed to be mentally deficient but their resumes since then don’t sound that way, nor do the articulate comments attributed them.
Natural Selection as “Piano Tuning”
“Organisms will change ever so slightly in order to stay the same and, thus, survive in their particular niche or environment.”
Francis Galton’s Novel: A Vision of Horrors to Come
Darwin’s cousin will never live down the dark side of his legacy.
A. L. Hughes’s New Non-Darwinian Mechanism of Adaption Was Discovered and Published in Detail by an ID Geneticist 25 Years Ago
As a geneticist, I have been “preaching” exactly this non-Darwinian kind of evolution and speciation since 1986.
A Modest Comeback for Lamarck, and a Reminder of the Edge of Evolution
Like the Darwinian mechanism, the Lamarckian one appears to work — insofar as it does — by knocking things out, not building them up.