BBC show on Ediacaran fauna 7 Jul 2009 A commenter just posted this: Greetings Ediacara fans, You may be interested in tuning into In Our Time BBC Radio 4, at 0900 BST on Thursday (9th) July. See here for the links. Evolution Species and systematics Systematics
Evolution Myth 5: Darwin thought evolution relied on accidents and chance 20 Feb 200918 Sep 2017 This myth says a lot about the default views of western thinking, rather like the issue of teleology. Read More
Evolution The greatest threat: antimodernism 27 Apr 200818 Sep 2017 In the thread on the recent debate between Winston and Dennett, I said that I thought the greatest threat to scientific progress and rationality was antimodernism, which was not always religious. Here, I’m going to elaborate on that cryptic comment. Read More
Evolution Some hominid evolution items 19 Aug 2009 Two items worth reading: Mailund notes that the 2006 claim of complex speciation, involving gene exchange for some time after the chimp and hominid lineages split, has been argued against on the grounds that high rates of sperm production in humans and chimps could generate the effect. Pleiotropy discusses the… Read More