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Photo: Congress investigates UAPs, by U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

UFOs Replay History: Rogan, Keating, and “Things Seen in the Skies”

Psychologist Carl Jung got interested in UFOs around 1946, shortly after the development of the atom bomb. Read More ›
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Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Image: Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger / Public domain.

New Article in Science Boosts Plausibility of a Primordial Pair

These new developments underscore the fact that there is no room for dogmatism about claims concerning the smallest population size of humans. Read More ›
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What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

This year, 2023, marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read More ›
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An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›
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What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Read More ›
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Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
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Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?

"Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›
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Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection

The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others. Read More ›
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Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box

Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics. Read More ›

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