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Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor
Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”
On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts
Vindicated But Not Cited: Paper in Nature Heredity Supports Michael Behe’s Devolution Hypothesis
Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind
Can You Say That in Nature? Dobzhansky’s Evolution Cliché Is Becoming Passé
Smaller Voles: “Evolution in Action” Is Rare, Trivial
Tense Atmosphere at Royal Society “New Trends in Evolutionary Biology” Meeting: A Report on Day 1
Lewontin and Numbers: Day One of Darwin 2009 at the University of Chicago
“Go to hell!” said Ron Numbers cheerfully to me, as we greeted each other at the front of Rockefeller Chapel last night. “Hey, did I say that loud enough?” he asked, looking around at the various evolutionary biology and history and philosophy of science worthies — Lewontin, Kitcher, Sober, Ruse, Dennett, Richards, and so on — milling about. Ron’s smiling insult was a mocking attempt to redress the widespread criticism that he had let me off easy in our notorious Bloggingheads conversation. A spirit of raillery was in the air, given a vigorous kick at the beginning of the evening by Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin. Little of the secular sanctimony of the 1959 Darwin centennial (see below) was in evidence. Read More ›