Peer-Reviewed Science: There Isn’t “Plenty of Time for Evolution”

_{Casey Luskin
December 13, 2012

Evolution

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Once again, the Evolutionary Informatics Lab has shown that simulations of evolution seem to work only because they've been intelligently designed. Read More ›

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December 11, 2012

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Meet the Strandbeests

_{Science and Culture
December 11, 2012

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dutch inventor, artist, and engineer Theo Jansen has spent the last twenty years working on what he has deemed to be artificial life. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
December 10, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, science}

Paper Lays to Rest "Vernanimalcula," Supposed Precambrian Ancestor of Bilaterian Animals

_{Casey Luskin
December 10, 2012

Evolution

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"The 'little spring animal' has taken on a life of its own, a life it never had in the Neoproterozoic." Read More ›

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December 10, 2012

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Evolution
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Here It Is, Jonathan M.’s Review of Why Evolution Is True

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2012

Evolution

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Coyne, it appears, seeks to be the American Dawkins and his currency has risen considerably in the past few years. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 9, 2012

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Evolution
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Human Origins, and the Real Reasons for Evolutionary Skepticism

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 9, 2012

Evolution

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Coyne's book leaves our Darwin doubts as they were, squarely in place. Read More ›

Pair of male and female eurasian bullfinch, pyrrhula pyrrhula, sitting just above water level with their reflection mirrored on surface. Two cute colorful passerine birds drinking from pond.

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Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 8, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, evolution of the sexes, science, sex}

The Persistent Enigma of Sexual Reproduction

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 8, 2012

Evolution

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Coyne begins this section with a description of the evolutionary costs of sex. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 7, 2012

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Evolution
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Blink and You’ll Miss It: Jerry Coyne Turns His Attention to the “Engine of Evolution”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 7, 2012

Evolution

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Chapter 5 is the only part of Coyne's book that attempts to demonstrate the causal power of the proposed mechanisms driving evolutionary change. Read More ›

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Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 6, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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As Evidence of Darwinian Evolution, Biogeography Falls Well Short of Satisfying

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 6, 2012

Evolution

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Biogeography is the field that seeks to explain the global distribution of organisms by reference to migration, continental drift, and so on. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 5, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, convergent evolution, nature, science, Tree of Life}

Bothersome Bats and Other Pests Disturb the “Tree of Life”

_{Casey Luskin
December 5, 2012

Evolution

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A recent paper in the journal Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society offers some striking comments about the prevalence of discordance among phylogenetic trees. Read More ›

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Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 4, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, science, Views}

Jerry Coyne’s Chapter on the Fossil Record Fails to Show “Why Evolution Is True”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 4, 2012

Evolution

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One feature of the fossil record that would not be expected under Darwin's theory is the observed pattern of morphological disparity preceding diversity. Read More ›