Some more on that snake leg 17 Sep 2009 Lanclet, discussing a Jerry Coyne comment on a Pharyngula post, suggests that the snake actually had ingested a lizard, and the lizard’s leg had punctured the snake. It doesn’t change the point about atavisms, but it does make the case less sexy… Evolution
Evolution Size matters 13 Jan 201213 Jan 2012 As always, click on the image to go see the entire Tony Piro goodness Read More
Evolution What Evolution Is and What It Is Not (1897) 6 Oct 2007 I found this interesting and still surprisingly modern essay by David Starr Jordan in 1897, at William Tozier’s blog, where he had scanned it from a journal called The Arena. They had some good public discussion journals at the time. So I took his scan and OCR’d and corrected it,… Read More
Evolution Yet another Darwin diagnosis 18 Jan 2010 Diagnosing Darwin’s maladies is something of a professional sport amongst doctors. Previously he has been diagnosed as having Chagas Disease, chronic fatigue, various viruses, and now something called cyclical vomiting syndrome. Since this “diagnosis” sounds like a simple description of the symptoms, colour me unimpressed. Read More