evolution · natural selection

Sean Carroll on the cutting edge of evolution in action? A gene divided reveals the details of natural selection MADISON — In a molecular tour de force, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have provided an exquisitely detailed picture of natural selection as it occurs at the genetic level. Writing today (Oct. 11, 2007) in… Continue reading

evolution

Hurrah for National ReviewA conservative magazine finally published an article on evolution that wasn’t nonsense!Seriously, this is a nice piece by Jim Manzi (available online here), who runs his own software company and has a working appreciation for just how randomness works in Darwin’s theory. Look for the usual nitwits to show up in the… Continue reading

evolution · Gould

Reconsidering Teilhard I’ve been reading John F. Haught’s God After Darwin, and he has an interesting section on the life and work of Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit paleontologist. I must confess I’ve never looked deeply into his career. I knew that he envisaged a sort of progressive direction to evolution which, while understandable at… Continue reading