Evolutionary Novelties

For reasons I won't go into, I was looking up an old review of a paper of mine, that is now published (after originally being rejected a...

I just had a student ask me some questions about evolution. Since I spent a little time on this, I thought I would post it here, in case so...

It is interesting that evolutionists quite often use the term "lineage" to refer to a clade. I feel I've seen this in many co...

"Scientific illustrations are not frills or summaries; they are foci for modes of thought." -Gould, 1991 Almost certainly, one of ...

I spend a lot of time re-writing. I wrangle with the text. It rarely just flows. Not uncommonly, I scrap entire paragraphs or sections, s...

Darwin was the first to envisage global common descent for species. Who was the first to make the analagous conceptual leap for genes? In ...

Every year I ask the undergraduate students in my course EEMB 102-Macroevolution the same question. "What do you think of when I say ...