There Is No Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker in 1986. (Picture from here.) His intention was to refute the idea that the complexity of living systems made
Tag: evolution
Common Ground
I woke up thinking about taxonomy. Hence, today’s topic. Go figure. (Picture from here.) First, taxonomy is about successful lineages. Evolution doesn’t select for failed
Let Humans Be Human
Orgel’s Second Rule is “Evolution is smarter than you are.” (Picture from here.) I first heard this rule (unattributed at the time. Attributed by Francis
Teeth
I decided to talk about teeth today for purely personal reasons. (Picture from here.) Teeth are a structure unique to vertebrates. There are similar feeding
We Must Look Forward
Humans are both hyper-cooperative and hyper-competitive. Often, at the same time. (Picture from here.) There’s a continuing discussion of human intelligence that goes something like
Something Good: The Zoonomia Project
I’ve said before that humans are amazing creatures. (Picture from here.) We are incredibly smart—so smart that we forget how smart we are when we
More on Developmental Evolution
Last time I talked about the evolution of structures—called morphogenesis, in biology. (Picture from here.) I spoke of it a bit frivolously in the context
Evolution and Embryology
People who don’t believe in evolution make me tired. (Picture from here.) For one reason, it’s like saying I don’t believe in the sun. The
The Evolution of the Eye
The evolution of the eye was one of the big issues for those that sought to disprove evolution. (Picture from here.) The rationale (which echoed