In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Source Read More Evolution News
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For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science
They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit. Source Read More Evolution News
Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology
The principle behind this biological methodology can be extended to every case in biology where an organism needs to discriminate signals from self. Source Read More Evolution News
A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning
The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Source Read More Evolution News
Philosophy, Not Evidence, Drove Darwin and Huxley
This is an important thing to remember as we continue to evaluate the legacy of Darwin’s arguments today. Source Read More Evolution News
What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?
The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege. Source Read More Evolution News
Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian
Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Source…
Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils
Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Source Read More Evolution News
Comparing Design Evidence in Physics Versus Biology — Is One Stronger than the Other?
The multiverse is nakedly an attempt to save atheism from science. Darwinian theory is less nakedly so. Source Read More Evolution News
Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection Exposed by Washington Post
These human specimens were collected in large part to dramatize how non-white peoples were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than whites. Source Read More Evolution News