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Charles Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Darwin’s Contribution to Racial Extermination

These men and others argued that the logical extrapolation of Darwin’s theory was the extermination of their fellow humans in the name of evolutionary progress!  Read More ›
German Shepherd
Photo credit: Anna Dudkova via Unsplash.

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›
Red-pea gall
Red-pea gall of gall wasp Cynips divisa (agamous generation) on oak leaf. In the autumn the galls turn brownish. The hole in the gall (below) indicates that the gall wasp has already left its home. Others leave it in springtime.

Plant Galls and Evolution: A Neglected Study

In my new contribution, I restrict myself to important facets of the historical side of plant gall research. Read More ›
woman and bonobo

Homo sapiens, or Pan sapiens?

A snarky proposal, among others aimed at deflating the idea of humankind's exceptional place in nature, suggests that our species is really misnamed. Read More ›

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