Tag: textbooks
Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution
The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer.
Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution
Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence.
Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons
From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth.
The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution
The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack.
Racism, Evolution, and Human Exceptionalism
Certain threads in the events of recent months suggest the hand of a skilled novelist.