A reader has specifically asked that I look into the Great Darwinian Paradox as promoted by the authors associated with…
Category Evolution
One of my readers has specifically asked about two of the figures in Darwin’s Doubt. I want to directly address those…
And so we begin our wonderful journey into the world of the Burgess Shale. Meyer entitles this section “The Bestiary”. As any good role-playing gamer will tell you, the Bestiary is where we get descriptions of animals.
There seems to be a lot of confusion on this issue, so I want to lay it out here. Before…
We continue the last section that we began (location 567 Kindle edition* and pg 20 print), An Old Fossil Recovered.…
A discussion of Agassiz will take up the next two sections of Chapter 1. Meyer spends an entire section (Agassiz…
I’ve been piddling on this for a while. Honestly, I find the whole exercise extremely annoying. But I promised I…
I’ve discovered that Meyer has conveniently divided his chapters into sub-headings, so I’ll be tackling one sub-heading per post. This…
[Louis] Agassiz concluded that the fossil record, particularly the record of the explosion of Cambrian animal life, posed an insuperable…
A few pages into chapter 1 of Darwin’s Doubt and I have little to complain about. It’s almost shocking how good…