Tag: science
Since When Is This News? Rapid Microevolution in Lizard Feet Reveals Little About the Origin of Species
Anolis lizards may be small but they aren’t stupid: they also started spending less time on the ground and perched higher up in trees to escape new predators.
Peter Singer to Court: Make Chimps Persons!
Cut to its core, personhood theory is actually about opening the door to treating some of us as less than human.
Humans Display Many Behavioral and Cognitive Abilities that Offer No Apparent Survival Advantage
In recent years, biologists have tried to explain human moral, intellectual, and religious capacities in terms of Darwinian evolution.
Natural Selection Struggles to Fix Advantageous Traits in Populations
In place of natural selection, some evolutionary biologists propose random genetic drift (neutral mutations) to explain the origin of complex biological features.
Can We Talk? Human Language as the Business End of Consciousness
Naturalism (the view that it’s material nature all the way down) hasn’t fared much better with human language than with consciousness.