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Ichthyosaurs Suddenly Appeared in Triassic Oceans

April 20, 2002

“Ichthyosaurs were a group of Mesozoic marine reptiles that evolved fish-shaped body outlines,” begins Ryosuke Motani (UC Davis) in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences,1 in a paper on “Evolution of Fish-Shaped Reptiles… in Their Physical Environments and Constraints.” But while much is said about their environments and constraints, little is said to […]

Dumb Ideas

Florida Wises Up and Teaches Evolution Uncritically

February 20, 2002

The Florida State Board of Education adopted, by a vote of 4 to 3, science standards that require the teaching of evolution as “the fundamental concept underlying all of biology” without critical analysis or alternatives. Evolution News said that calling evolution a “scientific theory” instead of a scientific fact represented a meaningless compromise with the […]

Politics and Ethics

The Evolution of Morality

January 20, 2002

Can morality evolve in Darwin’s universe? Steven Pinker, evolutionary psychologist at Harvard, is just the man to ask. He wrote an 8-page article for the New York Times about it, facing the issues with frankness and forthrightness. To Pinker, as with other evolutionary psychologists, the “moral” behind morality is an evolutionary artifact of […]

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