Tag: evolution
Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right
The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism.
Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance
The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process.
No “Hopeful Monster,” Flower Demonstrates Evolution by Subtraction
Evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, noticed something peculiar about the columbines in a region of Colorado.
How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?
Unsatisfied with circular evolutionary arguments and lazy reasoning, Michael Behe decided to pose his question to the real-world data.
Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics
This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe.