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Showing posts with label Evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evolution. Show all posts
Sunday, August 21, 2011

On the edge of chaos and some kind of order (Books - Europa, The Great Journey, At Home in the Universe)

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I have the second of my comprehensive exams coming up. Although this has not resulted in reading nothing at all, it has meant that I have n...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

The drudgery of field science reveals abundant evidence for the mechanisms of evolution (Books - The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner)

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We've been back from vacation for almost a week but it has taken me until now to get back to writing. Our trip to the Dordogne, Paris, ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

We're a work in progress...

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Carl Zimmer has an excellent post today on George Williams , a little known evolutionary biologist who made some important additions to our...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Correcting our misinterpretations of the world (Books - Full House by Stephen Jay Gould)

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As a working scientist, Stephen Jay Gould had a good deal of practice thinking about trends in the natural world in the language of statist...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Fish with legs and other predictable oddities of nature (Books - Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin)

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Paleontologist Neil Shubin, a discoverer of Tiktaalik - a fish with legs which is one of the many thousands of clear demonstrations in natu...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The roots of communication are the roots of esthetics

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Natalie Angier muses today in the Science Times about art - from whence it came and why. Is it the product of oversized brains that have...