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Image: A Scholar in His Study, by Rembrandt van Rijn, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›
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Photo credit: MCDinosaurhunter, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?

More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job? Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Ashaninkacebus</I> molar, after Fig. S4 Marivaux et al. 2023, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›

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