Genetics

Andy on May 15th, 2009

A while back I wrote an article on ‘micro-evolution’ and used the commonly quoted ‘Peppered Moth’ studies to illustrate natural selection and evolution. However, a recent commenter pointed out that in fact, the British entomologist Bernard Kettlewell’s experiments that set out…

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Andy on April 2nd, 2009

I’ve written here before about religious beliefs and how reason and logic doesn’t enter into the concept at all. I don’t respect people who can hold such beliefs without any evidence and proudly proclaim ‘even if there was evidence to…

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Andy on March 24th, 2009

I often read - and get comments here - of the kind, “how can you possibly believe that life came about purely by chance?”. Well, the answer is simple, I don’t. This is a ‘popular’ misconception of evolution and natural…

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Andy on December 5th, 2007

“Testing the mental capabilities of chimps tells us important things about our own capacity. What we often find is that antecedents of human behavior and reasoning exist in chimps in a more primitive form, suggesting that we humans have elaborated…

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