John Wilkins with a nice post on why we shouldn’t get carried away with our appreciation of Darwin. Let us by all means celebrate the man and his achievements. But let us not make him into a demigod, either (nor any scientific hero – if Pasteur discarded 90% of his data, and he did, that… Continue reading
I missed this from earlier in the week. Nicholas Wade discusses David Sloan Wilson, Group Selection theory, and its relevance to the evolution of religion.
British actor Edward Woodward (Breaker Morant, The Equalizer series) has passed away.
Larry Moran discusses Genetic Load and why humans haven’t mutated themselves into extinction.
Ed Yong with further reflections on the new discovery about the FOXP2 gene.