Is genetics still metaphysical? Part V1/2. A relevant holiday exercise?

I t ' s the holiday season, and what with family and friends, and over-eating (and drinking), one can't operate at full speed.  So I...

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Darwinism without Darwin: The Origin of Species without Natural Selection?

We've written here before about whether Darwin actually solved the species problem for which he named his famous book. We concluded th...

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What problem was Darwin trying to solve....and did he actually solve it?

We properly honor Darwin on the 150th anniversary of his Origin of Species , though more proper would be to have honored both Darwin and Wal...

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Origin of species?

2009 is being celebrated as the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's famous book On the Origin of Species . . . . whose full title con...

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Singing along

We heard a BBC discussion today about urban birds in Britain. An interviewee, a bird expert of some sort (we did not catch his name or prof...

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