Hunting for the Hat Gene 16 Nov 2009 Mark Liberman has a good essay on why we shouldn’t be seeking genes for X here. Biology Evolution Genetics Philosophy Science
Evolution Sherlock Cumberbatch on Evolutionary Psychology 13 Jan 201214 Jan 2012 As always, click on the image to go see the entire Jonathon Rosenberg goodness Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Irreducible complexity robotics 29 Dec 201121 Jun 2018 Click on the image to go to the comic. Read More
Evolution An interesting paper on cultural evolution 31 Dec 2009 PNAS has a very interesting paper about cultural evolution in Taiwan at the beginning of the 20th Century, by Melissa Brown and Marcus Feldman. It basically argues that two different selective forces, Cultural and Social, influenced the decline in footbinding – it became seen as a low status practice, which… Read More
Years and years ago, in the first heyday of Sociobiology, in the mid 70s I think, there were lots of people talking about the gene for this and that — with even less basis, obviously, than at present. The reductio ad absurdum that someone proposed then was the gene for cooking. After all, the behavior is universal and advantageous and unique to our clade, so there must be a gene for it.