Sandwalk

This is a lengthy conversation between Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker. It took place in Boston at the Chevalier Theatre in September 2024...

The idea that most of the human genome is junk originated more that 50 years ago. Since then, evidence in support of this concept has steadi...

I'm reveiwing some of the contributions to Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory . In this post...

Bruce Alberts, 1 Karen Hopkin, and Keith Roberts have published an essay on Why Trust Science . In this essay, we address the que...

A recent commentary in Nature prompts me to revisit an old bugaboo. The commentary discusses some recent work on CO 2 fixation in plants [...

There are a bunch of people who think that evolutionary theory needs to be extensively revised. They focus their attacks on a particular (i...

The Center for Science and Culture (sic) and the Discovery Institute (sic) have published another propaganda video on junk DNA. The emphasis...

The December 7th issue of New Scientist features a cover promoting an article by Kevin Lala , an evolutionary biologist at the University o...

This is a Come Let Us Reason Together (sic) podcast moderated by Lenny Esposito with Faxale "Fuz" Rana of Reasons to Believe a...

This is a video of a debate/discussion between Alex O'Connor and Francis Collins on the existence of God. I'm not impressed with an...

Zack Hancock has posted a lengthy (2 hours) video explaining why Denis Noble, James Shapiro, and the rest of The Third Way of Evolution cro...

William Hasletine is a well-respected molecular biologist with an outstanding track record dating back to the time when he was a graduate s...

On January 9, 2023 the US House of Representatives created the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic . It was chaired by Republica...

Cambridge University Press is publishing a series of inexpensive books on biology topics. The books all have similar titles beginning wi...

A few weeks ago I put up a post on Were you lied to in your genetics class? . At the time I thought it was just a fringe view being expresse...