Tag: The Conversation
Fossil Friday: Piltdown Lizard Was Too Good to Check
It was considered to be “one of the oldest fossil reptiles and one of the very few skeletal specimens with evidence of soft tissue preservation.”
Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers
The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.”
Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized
An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation.
Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?
People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse?
“Astonishing” Clocks Found in Bacteria
How could evolution bestow accurate timepieces on the simplest, most primitive life forms? It sounds like something William Paley would expect.