Tag: Russia
The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published
The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.”
A Precambrian House of Cards
Wow, that’s cool, they not only found the elusive Ediacaran animals but even could unravel their genomes!?
Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism
George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant.
At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?
Peter Singer has argued that animals, like humans, deserve protection because of their ability to suffer.
Kimberella — Controversial Scratch Marks
A former teacher of mine was the late Adolf Seilacher, who was a leading authority on trace fossils and who for obvious reasons preferred to be called “Dolf.”