Getting rid of “Darwinism” 16 Jul 200818 Sep 2017 Good to see that Olivia Judson has finally caught up with me… Evolution History
Creationism and Intelligent Design Wilkins on screen 10 Nov 2009 Proving that I have a great face for radio, you can see the second (but not for some reason, the first) of two video interviews (vlogs) that I did for NYC Atheists recently. There’s a really good shot of my right shoulder giving a talk about one third of the… Read More
Epistemology Evopsychopathy 2: The phylogenetic bracket 7 Dec 20122 Jan 2013 As noted, SB and EP have a very unfortunate tendency to reflect the status quo in their results and research questions. This is not unique to them. History, sociology, other fields of psychology (psychotherapy for gods’ sake!), and in my own profession, ethics, all have this “Pull of Privilege”. Somehow… Read More
Evolution On the supposed bottleneck 70,000 years ago 3 May 2008 John Hawks has a very nice post for people with basic math, explaining why a recent press release announced that 70,000 years ago the human species encountered a population bottleneck of 2000 individuals, and why it’s most likely wrong. In the process he explains effective population size. It’s a tad… Read More
I disagree that the problem with the “-ism” is that it suggests a finality to Darwins arguments,that he was the “beginning and end of evolutionary biology”. The term is not one usually used by scientists,its being propagated by Creationists,the DI and their ilk,and just represents their particular Goebbels-esque tendency to create “isms” to devalue certain theories by turning them into an -ism,Darwinist,Evulutionist etc…..
I disagree that the problem with the “-ism” is that it suggests a finality to Darwins arguments,that he was the “beginning and end of evolutionary biology”. The term is not one usually used by scientists,its being propagated by Creationists,the DI and their ilk,and just represents their particular Goebbels-esque tendency to create “isms” to devalue certain theories by turning them into an -ism,Darwinist,Evulutionist etc…..
Ulrich Kutschera of the University of Kassel has suggested introducing the term “Darwin-Wallace principle of natural selection” (Nature 453:27, 2008).
Ulrich Kutschera of the University of Kassel has suggested introducing the term “Darwin-Wallace principle of natural selection” (Nature 453:27, 2008).
What’s that line from E. B. White? Something like “She dove into the sea of her sentence, and finally emerged, panting, on the other side, with her verb in her teeth.” (He probably used fewer commas. :))
Let’s see: Der Darwinische-WallaceischeSatzdernatuerlicheAuslese… How do Germans breathe, anyway? Durch ihren Arschloch natuerlich!
Let’s see: Der Darwinische-WallaceischeSatzdernatuerlicheAuslese… How do Germans breathe, anyway? Durch ihren Arschloch natuerlich!
What’s that line from E. B. White? Something like “She dove into the sea of her sentence, and finally emerged, panting, on the other side, with her verb in her teeth.” For values of E. B. White that equal S. L. Clemens, anyway. “Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
Units are often called for names of discoverers: Ohms, Volts, Newtons, Einsteins, etc. Does anyone use the evolutionary unit, the Darwin? A Darwin is a 1% change in the gene pool of a population over one generation.
According to Wikipedia a darwin is an e-fold amount of change over one million years, and was devised by J. B. S. Haldane. I think it is flawed because it assumes that rates of change are commensurable across the evolutionary tree in absolute terms, and this is a mistake.
“Does anyone use the evolutionary unit, the Darwin? A Darwin is a 1% change in the gene pool of a population over one generation. I think they should refer to a kilodarwin as a “gould”. (Incidentally, there seem to be different definitions of what a darwin is floating around, or are they equivalent and I just not understanding? (very, very possible).
“Does anyone use the evolutionary unit, the Darwin? A Darwin is a 1% change in the gene pool of a population over one generation. I think they should refer to a kilodarwin as a “gould”. (Incidentally, there seem to be different definitions of what a darwin is floating around, or are they equivalent and I just not understanding? (very, very possible).
“Does anyone use the evolutionary unit, the Darwin? A Darwin is a 1% change in the gene pool of a population over one generation. I think they should refer to a kilodarwin as a “gould”. (Incidentally, there seem to be different definitions of what a darwin is floating around, or are they equivalent and I just not understanding? (very, very possible).