Tag: extinction
In Unexpected Attack, Activists Deface Charles Darwin’s Tomb
Activists with Just Stop Oil seem to be attempting to enlist Darwin’s modern-day followers in their environment cause.
In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction
The human-extinction movement used to be pretty fringy but it may be gaining traction within bioethics and philosophy.
Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”
Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast!
Even More Mammoth Devolution
The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one.
There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse
Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction.