Month: May 2012
More Missing Links — of Darwin, Eugenics and Hitler
Yale Alumni Magazine has done the world a favor by exposing one of the skeletons in the closet of that and other universities: the eugenics movement.
Major Discovery: Evolutionary Psychology Confirms that Many Men Are Cads
When the age-blighted bricks that hold up House Darwin start to topple, it may look a bit like what’s happening now to the Darwinian sub-specialty of evolutionary psychology.
Understanding Bayesian Analysis, the Evolution Skeptic’s Friend
Many of us recall being asked by our parents, “If everyone were jumping off a bridge, would you do that too?”
In Embryo Development, Non-DNA Information Is at Least as Important as DNA
An example of how a preoccupation with evolutionary theory can divert attention from some of the most interesting aspects of heredity and development.
Biologists Are “Rethinking Heredity” with the Revival of “Nongenetic Inheritance”
The modern ideas aren’t like Lamarck’s notion about giraffes stretching their necks to eat leaves off the tops of trees, and then having offspring with longer necks.