Category: Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There
Because minds don’t fossilize, anything we think we know about the minds of putative prehumans is speculation.
What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?
Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause.
Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication
Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm.
Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA
There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components.
Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present
If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories.