Tag: migration
Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light?
The media are generous with claims that new findings “shed light” on evolution.
How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight
He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.”
Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution
They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve.
Encore Performances in the Design of Life
News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian.
Marvelous Migrations at All Scales
Living things are on the move everywhere. Why do some of them go to great lengths to migrate, while others stay put?