Hybridization seems to a limited but durable method of producing a new species under favorable conditions.
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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
Nobel physicist resigns, all right … from a physics society that was morphing into a political pressure group
No scientific reason is cited for the change in the nature of the institution.
None was possible.
New finds make some wonder what the human genome actually is … it sure isn’t what we used to think …
By the way, anyone notice what happened to the God of the gaps? Readers will remember all those gaps that were supposed to be filled in by explanations that do not include design?
Friends offer us Freud debunkers – but after you hear about the cocaine …
About “crazy as a shrink,” what else did you need to know?
Thought for the day: “I don’t believe in science; science is our defence against belief.”
Mid-twentieth century critics were offered a Freudian diagnosis for their motives. That made the Freudians’ arguments unanswerable.
Nile crocodiles swam to Caribbean?
In “Nile crocodile is two species” (Nature, September 14, 2011), Ed Yong reports, he iconic Nile crocodile actually comprises two different species — and they are only distantly related. The large east African Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is in fact more closely related to four species of Caribbean crocodile than to its small west African Read More…
Cellular mid-bodies (once thought rubbish) are the new junk DNA?
There must be some reason the cell doesn’t just get rid of them like all the rest.
Researchers: It’s not that young people today are immoral – it’s that they can’t recognize moral questions at all
Which reminds us: If Dawkins talks the way he just did on TV and Paxman joins in, prompting a complaint to the BBC, how is he supposed to be a good influence on children? Why should anyone buy or recommend his children’s book?
Formal complaint to BBC News: I would expect (news host Paxman) to interview, not cheer on Prof Dawkins
A viewer files after the Dawkins “Newsnight” interview, promoting his children’s book, The Magic of Reality:
Richard Dawkins interviewed on his new children’s book
To judge from the Intro, the questions will likely be less than probing.
New dark matter find casts doubt on supersymmetry?
Could dark matter join the Higgs boson (the “God” particle) in last year’s theoretical particle zoo? Its existence is inferred in order to account for the strength of gravity; it wsn’t observed.
Before you tuck yourself in for the night, keep in mind that we Uncommon Descenters are real bad people
Sure. We only pretend to find troothing ridiculous.
Oldest found insect is – are you ready? – 400 million years old
And you’re not tired of hooting at Darwinism yet? Nor are we.
Friends of Uncommon Decent write to us about the “missing link” – which we never missed, really
In fact, Darwinism is built on an infrastructure of faith, which is why its supporters like to ask unwary politicians (and laymen), “Do you BELIEVE IN evolution?” To which the appropriate answer is: “I didn’t realize that science depended on belief.”
We need a new name for living fossils like this
If it’s living, it’s not a fossil, or anyway, we don’t know it as one. We know it as a living organism. How about “durable species”?