Category: Evolution
Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm
John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA.
Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute
In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away.
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered
Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology.
Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go
This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science.
The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era
Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered?