Why is Richard Dawkins Grumpy?
Because the News item concerning Lynn Margulis will quickly scroll away on this forum, I offer the following. Lynn Margulis is dead. Richard Dawkins (on whether she was a one-hit wonder and her obituary): Yes, that is exactly what she was. She was right about one big thing – and not many people can say that, so she deserves credit for it. But she more than used that credit up being wrong, in a big way, about almost everything else. She bizarrely saw herself as anti-Darwinian, and bad-mouthed the entire neo-Darwinian synthesis and just about everybody associated with it. She once said, in my presence, “John Maynard Smith doesn’t understand evolution”. Fortunately she was not taken seriously enough for her Read More ›