Sandwalk

  Read about it on Coyne's blog [ Darwin Day, Philadelphia. 1. I meet Ken Miller ]. At any rate, after dinner I met Ken and we chatted a...

  Yet how the former led to the latter, how it was that complexity emerged and is sustained even in that near-miracle of a chemical factory ...

A statue of Charles Darwin was sculpted by Sir Joseph Boehm in 1885. It cost £2200. The money was raised by soliciting individual contributi...

  From PZ Myers [ I get email ]. One frequent motif recurs in creationist email: they may believe in god, but they don't believe in para...

  It's been a great pleasure to read the Origin of Species in preparation for my talk tonight and for our book club meeting last Monday...

 

  Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809. Here are the opening paragraphs of Janet Browne's wonderful biography of Charles Darwin. ...

  I know I'm going to be accused of beating a dead horse but as Emile Zucherkandl and Linus Pauling said in 1965 ... Some beating of dea...

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the ce...

  David Warren writes for the Ottawa Citizen —an otherwise respectable newspaper. Denyse O'Leary is one of Warren's biggest fans. To...

  John Wilkins has posted a link to his essay in Resonance . Go to his blog ( Evolving Thoughts ), click on the link, read, and enjoy. I can...

  By the 6th edition of Origin of Species Darwin had begun to adopt the term "survival of the fittest" and a synonym for "na...

Jerry Coyne is an adaptationist. Thus, it comes as no great surprise that he is comfortable with equating evolutionary biology and Darwinism...

  Several bloggers are upset enough at Carl Safina that they have posted detailed critiques of his article in the New York Times : Darwinism...

  Colleges and universities in Georgia (USA) have faculty members who are experts on human sexual behavior. Horrors! Here's what one sta...