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Animal minds Darwinism Intelligent Design

Kin selection? The selfish gene? Researchers ponder why animals adopt other species’ orphans

Human exceptionalism is never more obvious than when humans are offering rational-sounding arguments against it.

Posted on May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 Author News Comments(2)
Darwinism Human evolution Intelligent Design

(Reformed) New Scientist 3: The Selfish Gene Is No Longer Cool

Readers may recall that New Scientist published an article three days ago on 13 ways we need to “rethink the theory of nature.” Their Number 3 rethink is … Move Over, Selfish Gene. It’s replaced not just by kin selection now but by cultural group selection. Most of the article is paywalled but here’s the Read More…

Posted on September 26, 2020 Author News Comment(1)
Books of interest Darwinism Intelligent Design

Science journalist confronts evolutionary theorist with hard questions at his book talk

es, in one phrase, Mazur, author of Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology, captures the problem: “he doesn’t define it.” Much Darwinism today survives on the fumes of “evolution” in general.

Posted on June 4, 2019June 5, 2019 Author News Comments(24)
Darwinism Intelligent Design

Meerkats: Another classic Darwinian just-so story

Clearly, this helping behavior is a surprise to the researchers. But if both Darwinism and their suspicions are correct, it should be a principle of some kind instead. Yet can they afford to check it out?

Posted on April 26, 2019April 26, 2019 Author News Comment(0)

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