Category Archives: Evolution and Biology
Ineffective forecasting: Why we are bad at knowing how we will feel and evolution favors our ignorance
In the excellent John Huston film, The Maltese Falcon, a crew of criminals and adventurers, led by Kasper Gutman (played impeccably by Sydney Greenstreet) chase down the valuable and eponymous bird statuette with such single-mindedness that robbery, murder, and double-crossings … Continue reading
Tantrums, Enough Un-said!
If my son isn’t possessed by a tiny caveperson, what makes him lose his cool so rapidly and monstrously? Continue reading
Darwin’s Lessons for the Graduates
Hear that robin singing in the morning? Smell the white blossoms on the natural rose bushes near the woods? See the turkey vultures soaring high – in communicative harmony with one another? Note this: The same forces accounting for these examples account for everything you see when you look in a mirror. Your are part of this magnificent natural world. This insight is, for my money, what makes Darwinism a truly spiritual approach to the world.
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Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Making Sense of Biology Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973). The American Biology Teacher, 35(3), 125-129. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw… This line comes from the poem: In Memoriam A.H.H. … Continue reading
Are You Going to Eat the Placenta? And Other New Age Questions a Modern 1st World Mother Must Endure
It seems a pregnant women is a magnet for unsolicited advice – most often tips for parenting, but even tips regarding how she should give birth. In my own experience, these tips came only from males or childless females, but … Continue reading
Back to the Roots, or Pass the Ketchup Please?
As happens with modern behaviors, the presumed ancestral human diet has been lifted up as a utopian ideal by which to live. The Paleo Diet (also Evolution Diet, NeanderThin) offers a way to return to our roots and reduce the … Continue reading
Evolutionary Medicine and the TNT phenotype
Making Sense of Biology: Evolutionary Medicine and the TNT phenotype Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky. (1973). The American Biology Teacher, 35(3), 125-129. Black in America 2 aired on CNN in late July … Continue reading
The Giraffe’s … tale.
“The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.“ Thomas H. Huxley (1825 – 1895) English biologist; supporter of Darwin; father of Aldous & Julian Huxley. Missed Opportunities In the lead up to … Continue reading
