Merely stating that an animal (like the peacock with its outrageous tail) exhibits trade-offs doesn't explain how mutation and selection produced it.
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"In 1972, Canadian science broadcaster David Suzuki told some giggling students, 'One of the things I've gotten off on lately is that basically... we're all fruit flies.'"
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Remember, nominations will close tomorrow, January 29. I am arbitrarily setting midnight Pacific Time on Wednesday as the moment the door slams shut.
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Meredith's essay in First Things is an amalgam of insubstantial half-truths. Nothing really holds it together. But it begs for a scalpel and tweezers, because it's poisonous.
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