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DarwinTomb
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In Unexpected Attack, Activists Deface Charles Darwin’s Tomb

Activists with Just Stop Oil seem to be attempting to enlist Darwin’s modern-day followers in their environment cause. Read More ›
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In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction

The human-extinction movement used to be pretty fringy but it may be gaining traction within bioethics and philosophy. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”

Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast! Read More ›
woolly mammoth
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Even More Mammoth Devolution

The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one. Read More ›
steam train
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There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Read More ›
Mammoth
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Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›
Mammoth
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Mammoth Support for Devolution

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›
Tops supermarket
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Weikart: In His Own Mind, White Supremacist Gunman Was Only Following the Science

President Biden this week said it is “running through our body politic.” If so, it’s strange that I’m not sure I’ve ever met a genuine white supremacist. Read More ›
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Bioethicists Okay Human Extinction to Eliminate Suffering

A few months ago, Oxford professor Roger Crisp opined that we might not want to stop a huge asteroid from hitting the Earth. Read More ›
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History
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What Do Biologists Really Know About Macroevolution?

There lives in biology a great consensus truth that evaporates upon close scrutiny. Read More ›

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