It appears that one of my previous posts was rather confusing for some readers (see this and this, also this for rebuttal).  In the post “The Junk DNA myth strikes again (next up: media hype)“, I lamented the painfully cliched tendency for authors to...

The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online: Article Editorial Mick Wycoff PDF (53.8 KB)HTML 579-580 Article How Can English Tell the Story? Douglas Reed Eldredge PDF (70.4 KB)HTML 581-583 Article Becoming Modern Homo...

Check out this nonsense from an article in The Toronto Star, which for some reason decides to pit the Bible against The Origin of Species as works of literature. You can spot the difference in the quality of the writing from the very first lines of...

If you managed to get an extra copy of the “special edition” of the Origin that was handed out on US and Canadian campuses, I would appreciate receiving one! WANT: Please send me a special edition copy of the Origin. is a post from...

Darwin’s views are often misrepresented to the point of caricature, as we all know, but there have also been plenty of examples of literal caricature of Darwin in the popular media. I recently gave some talks about evolutionary imagery, which included...