What If You Are the “Weakest Link”?
2021-12-16 – What if you are the weakest link? I just got back from walking the dog. We’ve had high winds all night and the wind is forecast to continue […]
Tag Archives: Evolution
Tropical Getaway, in Spanish, Con Un Perro
2015-07-30 – I was watching an episode of the Daily Show the other day and a Verizon commercial came on. I don’t usually pay much attention to the commercials, but […]
GMO Is OMG Spelled Backwards (i.e., Genetically Modified)
2015-04-21 – Every food that you eat has been genetically modified. When Darwin came up with his idea for natural selection, his model was artificial selection. Humans have been genetically […]
Are Dogs As Smart as a Two-Year Old? (And Is That a Good Thing?)
2015-04-19 – While half the world believes the other half isn’t intelligent enough to be considered human, scientists are busy finding that all sorts of nonhuman critters have human-level intelligence. […]
Left Standing in Mid-Air
2015-01-20 – What do conservative believe about evolution? It’s probably mixed. Some go along with it. Some don’t. Their religious friends certainly don’t. And if liberals believe in evolution, it […]
Cathedrals of Scent
2014-02-09 – My friend Chris posted an interesting article on Facebook: “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?” by David Graeber. The article contrasts one utilitarian view of evolutionary […]
Evolution Wins on Field Goals
2014-02-06 – When one team goes out to play baseball and the opponent is playing basketball, you might have a hard time saying who won. One team wins on […]
My Brother’s Keeper
2014-01-12 – A favorite idea, at least in the popular press, is that kin selection tends to make us cooperate more with close family members and compete more with […]
What a Piece of Work Is Man!
2013-10-20 – One of the arguments against evolution is the perfection of God’s creation. Evolution, apparently, can’t arrive at a creature as noble as man. I’m not sure who can […]
Unborn Dogs
2012-10-22 – So many different types of dogs. Sheep dogs. Chihuahuas. Pit bulls. Poodles. Collies. It’s amazing that they are all dogs. And yet they can mostly interbreed. With all […]
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