Posts Tagged by sexual selection
Rob Sheldon on the failure of selfish gene theory and peacocks, as well as bees
| October 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon writes to offer some thoughts on the recent study of bees, which failed to confirm selfish gene thinking as an explanation for communal life: This is really a most interesting study. If you recall, E. O. Wilson got fame and glory for studying ants. The problem he addressed, is […]
Evolutionary psychology explains why men pay on the first date. And don’t.
| September 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design |
Explains everything and its opposite! Our philosopher and photographer friend Laszlo Bencze writes to apprise us of “the definitive explanation” of why men want to pay on a first date: “There is an evolutionary reason for this, says Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington. […]
Replication failures of Darwinian sexual selection openly discussed at The Scientist
| August 3, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science |
It’s as if evolutionary biologists are beginning to take some of the problems of Darwinism seriously enough to discuss them openly, as failures in research. In this case, the failure of claims for sexual selection (females drive evolution by choosing the fittest mates) are openly publicized. In the past five years, meta-analyses and reviews have […]
Do socially isolated animals speed evolution?
| August 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Natural selection |
From ScienceDaily: Research on evolution typically focuses on the importance of social interactions, including parent-offspring bonding, competition for resources, and courtship and mating rituals. But Nathan Bailey at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and his colleague Allen Moore at the University of Georgia realized that isolation must then be an extreme condition worthy […]
