Tag: science
Paper Lays to Rest "Vernanimalcula," Supposed Precambrian Ancestor of Bilaterian Animals
“The ‘little spring animal’ has taken on a life of its own, a life it never had in the Neoproterozoic.”
Human Origins, and the Real Reasons for Evolutionary Skepticism
Coyne’s book leaves our Darwin doubts as they were, squarely in place.
The Persistent Enigma of Sexual Reproduction
Coyne begins this section with a description of the evolutionary costs of sex.
Blink and You’ll Miss It: Jerry Coyne Turns His Attention to the “Engine of Evolution”
Chapter 5 is the only part of Coyne’s book that attempts to demonstrate the causal power of the proposed mechanisms driving evolutionary change.
As Evidence of Darwinian Evolution, Biogeography Falls Well Short of Satisfying
Biogeography is the field that seeks to explain the global distribution of organisms by reference to migration, continental drift, and so on.