Darwin the Newtonian. Part II. Is life really 'Newtonian'?

I n yesterday's  post  I suggested that Darwin had a Newtonian view of the world, that is, he repeatedly and clearly described the organ...

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Darwin the Newtonian. Part I. The Darwinian worldview

H istory shows that, even in science, things that everyone has long taken for granted may not be true.  Thinking in ways more carefully cons...

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After Darwin--then what? Finding a moral compass without a compass

W hen one is aware of the fact that life is the result of the evolutionary process it is only natural to think about the implications for ho...

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"Mr Darwin's 'Researches' abound in misstatements"

B y total serendipity, I recently learned from an ornithologist friend of a fascinating letter in an 1870 issue of the Proceedings of the Z...

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Remembrance of things past--in your genes? Part III: Was Lamarck so laughable?

A favorite sport of those holding to strict Darwinian views (to the extent they understand Darwin),  is to ridicule Jean Baptiste de Lamarc...

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