Tag: Simon Conway Morris
Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize
A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford’s Richard Dawkins and MIT’s Rosalind Picard.
Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”
The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme.
Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times
No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them.
Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again
Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative.
Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin
Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations.”