Tag: University of Chicago Press

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Amazon, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), CHM13, common ancestry, DNA, Financial Times, function, genetic difference, genetics, genomes, Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics, Han Chinese, human exceptionalism, human-human genetic differences, humans, Jared Diamond, Joel Duff, junk DNA, Nature Communications, non-alignable DNA, Nucleic Acids Research, nucleotides, objections, reactions, repetitive DNA, Science (journal), Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago Press, Zachary Ardern}

Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter?

_{Casey Luskin
June 26, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, creation, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger, giraffes, Homo sapiens, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, micromutations, natural preservation, natural selection, nature, Nick Lane, On the Origin of Species, quantum physics, Stanford University, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, University of Chicago Press, William Paley, William Shakespeare}

Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

_{Neil Thomas
June 19, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, American Revolution, American South, anti-racism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian evolution, Harriet Martineau, historiography, James Moore, Journal of Researches, racists, Sacred Cause (series), scholarship, science fiction, slavery, University of Chicago Press}

A Failed Attempt to Turn Darwin into Wilberforce

_{Robert Shedinger
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Culture, Evolution

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Nice try, Desmond and Moore. But criticizing Darwinian evolution does not make one a racist. The real Darwin is a far more ambiguous and conflicted figure. Read More ›