Tag: sexual selection
Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty
The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes.
Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating
Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.”
Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News
Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils.
For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology
In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin’s principal failing in developing his theory.
Giraffe Weekend: Can Sexual Selection Save This Evolutionary Icon?
Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig concludes that, “Sexual selection is not the cause of the long-necked giraffe.”