Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
And so we’ve reached the end of another week. Tomorrow I leave for the Big Road Trip, and posting will be light for six weeks or so.. The co-writers on this site will try to pick up some slack, we will still have Hili dialogues every day and perhaps some discussion threads, and of course … Continue reading Friday: Hili dialogue (and lagniappe)
A new paper in The American Naturalist, by Jonathan Storm and Steven Lima, shows that pregnant female crickets exposed to predatory wolf spiders can somehow “warn” the eggs they carry about the presence of those spiders, so that the offspring of those spider-exposed crickets show antipredator behavior. This sort of looks like a case of … Continue reading Forewarned is forearmed: crickets warn their eggs of nearby spiders
Over at the Guardian, Oliver Burkeman, a writer who apparently knows nothing about evolution, has a long piece called “Why everything you’ve been told about evolution is wrong.” Everything? Really? Burkeman seems to have a beef with Richard Dawkins, and seems to take delight in how the new “evolution revolution” would vex him: What if … Continue reading Worst science journalism of the year: Darwin completely wrong (again)
