Category Archives: Biology
Evolution quotes: Socialism
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running … Continue reading
Why eat meat?
A while back, the New York Times held a blog competition on justifications for eating meat, in 600 words or less. I submitted mine, but I bet it didn’t get far up the selection tree, as the winner is effectively … Continue reading
Filed under Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Evolution, Philosophy
Analytic thinking, religion and science – the rhetoric and the psychology
Over the past few decades there has been an increasingly large literature on styles of thinking and cognitive biases (to which I am grateful to Jocelyn Stoller, a reader of this blog, for introducing me) in psychology, culminating in the marvellous … Continue reading
Filed under Cognition, Epistemology, Evolution, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Social evolution
Carnival of Evolution 47: All the Evolution News that’s Fit to Blog
Welcome to the 47th edition of the Carnival of Evolution. We have had our science reporters out in force hunting down the best of the blogosphere on evolution and related subjects, and here they are for your delectation and delight … Continue reading
Get your Evolution Carnival posts in soon!
There’s only a week left to submit to the next Carnival of Evolution hosted here! Hop to it folks, or I’ll have to link to my own posts, and nobody wants that.
Filed under Administrative, Evolution
Bayes, evolutionary clocks, and biogeography
I just received a review by Gareth Nelson of Michael Heads’ book Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics (publishers’ site). I should have blogged this before, since I got a copy, being on the editorial board for this series (the same one … Continue reading
What warrant is there for belief in God?
Every morning on the way to the campus of the University of Melbourne I pass by the United Faculty of Theology, and I often wish that someone would come out and engage me in a debate. Partly because I am … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Evolution, Philosophy, Religion
Are humans, apes, monkeys, primates, or hominoids?
I suspect the correct literary answer is that we are Yahoos, but here I want to do what I would ordinarily never dare do: disagree with John Hawks. John takes Jerry Coyne to task for calling humans “apes”: Humans are hominoids. … Continue reading
