Tag: science
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.
Bothersome Bats and Other Pests Disturb the “Tree of Life”
A recent paper in the journal Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society offers some striking comments about the prevalence of discordance among phylogenetic trees.
Jerry Coyne’s Chapter on the Fossil Record Fails to Show “Why Evolution Is True”
One feature of the fossil record that would not be expected under Darwin’s theory is the observed pattern of morphological disparity preceding diversity.
Underwhelmed: Reviewing Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution Is True
To Coyne’s credit, the first chapter of his book carefully defines each of the key propositions of evolutionary theory.