Misconceptions of Evolution Part III February 12, 2009
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Part three of my ongoing series discussing common misconceptions of evolution. It starts here, and see part I and part II. (more…)
Misconceptions of Evolution Part I February 1, 2009
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This is the first in an open-ended series of posts I plan on making highlighting common misconceptions and misinterpretations on evolution by natural selection and its implications. Most of them are ones that I have held at some point before coming to realise it just isn’t the case while others are things I commonly hear from people who don’t get it. Some of them may be obvious, others more subtle, but hopefully they are of interest.
They are in no particular order other than the order I thought of them. Here are the first two: (more…)
Evolution Explained January 20, 2009
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In a coming series of posts (I have no idea how many yet) I will attempt to address common misconceptions about the theory of evolution which many people (even those who accept evolution by natural selection) often get wrong in my opinion. Before I start this set of posts however I would like to briefly explain what the theory of evolution is as context for understanding these explanations. I will probably refer to this post several times in the future.
Evolution Overdrive August 20, 2008
Posted by Ian in Science.Tags: Allan Wilson, Darwin, Evolution, Made in Taiwan, Marc Hauser, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society of New Zealand, Sean Carroll
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Given 2008 is the 150th 199th anniversary of the publication of The Origin Of Species it is no surprise there is significant activity going on about Darwin and evolution this year. Given Darwin and the Origin of species are both somewhat old (lol) it seems there is a bunch of evolution related stuff going on this year. And it seems this last month was the time for it to all start happening in my world.
In the last month or so I seem to have encountered a number of fascinating events, books and the like relating to evolution (some relating to the anniversary, others just coincidence) so I thought I’d share them along with some comments/reviews. It is nice to talk about the positive reasons for one’s world view once and a while rather than forever battling the opposite views, as important as that is! Listed roughly in chronological order:
