Month: August 2012
Family Size in Affluent Cultures: Another Failed Prediction of Darwinian Theory
In Seattle, instead of children, people have dogs.
A Philosopher Chastises Reductionist Myopia
“Through their thorough arguments, the essays in Processes of Life challenge widely held assumptions about biology and evolution. Dupr� provides a view of life grounded in recent research and current understanding. His perspective also reminds us how much we do not know.”
Not Good at Thinking? You’re Probably a Nonscientist
“For a nonscientist it’s very difficult to figure out what to think …”
Hitler, Evolution and the Historical Context
Darwinian theory allowed a framework and easy fit into which Hitler’s Nazis could cast their racial program as both scientific and even inexorable.
DNA Stores Data More Efficiently than Anything We’ve Created
But DNA wasn’t designed — right?