Tag: Research
Natural Selection Is Hard to Measure
Selection doesn’t act on a trait in isolation. It affects everything else, overwhelming the evidence for selection.
Search for a Search: Does Evolutionary Theory Help Explain Animal Navigation?
The authors of an intriguing paper on “natural search algorithms” fail to recognize that materialistic causes undermine their premise.
Brave New World Should Be Campaign Issue
Human cloning is being perfected, we are already engaging in embryonic experiments into genetic engineering, and there is a great silence.
Flight of the Bumblebee Reveals Optimization at Multiple Levels
A biological revolution is underway. Technology has allowed field biologists to track individual animals as small as insects.
NIH Can’t Be Trusted to Regulate Animal/Human Research
We have to be careful how we react to stories like this and not assume that all such work is, by definition, unethical.