Posts Tagged by Natural selection
Stripes confuse people but they do not cool zebras
| July 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design, Natural selection |
From ScienceDaily: Susanne Åkesson, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, refutes the theory that zebras have striped fur to stay cool in the hot sun. That hypothesis is wrong, she and her colleagues show in a study recently published in Scientific Reports. There has been an ongoing discussion among researchers, dating back to Darwin, […]
Tale of the Transmission
| October 15, 2014 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Darwinism, Engineering, Evolution, Irreducible Complexity |
It finally happened. I’ve been nursing along my car’s transmission for several months (careful driving, changing the fluids, etc.), but last week it finally failed completely, with an accompanying whump! and a jerk, and the car had to be towed to the auto repair shop. The initial hope was that a regular tear-down and cleanout, […]
Is nature really a struggle in which natural selection is the key factor?
| November 19, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Natural selection |
British physicist David Tyler comments: In a perceptive essay, Daniel Todes focuses attention on the reactions of Russian biologists to Darwin’s writings. Many of these naturalists “were evolutionists before 1859”, so they did not dissent from common ancestry. However, their experiences of the living world were quite different from Darwin and Wallace, who drew their […]
