Larry Moran asks this question in this post, and this post.
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That clever fellow John (Chris) Walken has proposed a useful idea—that we put together simple descriptions of basic concepts in our fields of interest for the edification of any newcomers to science. He picked the magic word Clade to write about first; I don't know why he didn't pick "Species",…
The cover story of New Scientist asks, "Was Darwin wrong?", as if this were surprising news (he was wrong about many things) or as if the discovery of new details would somehow demolish the whole structure of evolutionary theory. I'll let Larry Moran take care of this one.
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In my blog entry of a few days ago regarding Jerry Fodor's poorly argued essay in The London Review of Books, I remarked that Fodor divided his criticisms of natural selection into both an empricial and a conceptual criticism. I focused entirely on the empricial side of his essay. Happily, Bob O'…
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This is a list of the Basic Concepts posts being put up by Science Bloggers and others. It will be updated and put to the…