Darwin the Newtonian. Part IV. What is 'natural selection'?

I f, as I suggested yesterday , genetic drift is a rather unprovable or even metaphysical notion, then what is the epistemological standing ...

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Genetics in an age of fundamentalism

I heard a program the other day on the BBC Radio 4's  In Our Time  about the origins, rise, and persistence of Chinese Legalism. Intro...

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The beetle age

I f the way of ushering in modern science in the 1600s was largely based on instruments such as lenses and clocks, the 1700s became an age o...

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Adam's sin and Next Generation Sequencing

Before the Enlightenment, in western scholarship at least, our understanding of the world was based on data we could detect with our senses,...

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