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.
Someone just called a fairly new “Evolution-Needs-a-New-Paradigm” website to my attention, and I wish they hadn’t. The site, “The Third Way of Evolution,” has been going for some time and, according to the its notes, was created last May by two biologists, James Shapiro (here at the University of Chicago) and Dennis Noble, a renowed physiologist who was formerly a … Continue reading Should there be a “Third Way” of evolution? I think not.
My Chicago colleague James Shapiro appears to have been badly stung by my repeated criticisms of his attempts to forge a new evolutionary view based on the “self-engineering” of organisms and their DNA (see here, here, here, and here, for instance). This will be the last time I comment on Shapiro’s PuffHo pieces, as I … Continue reading James Shapiro, in his attempts to forge a new evolutionary paradigm, is reduced to going after my commenters
I hate to give attention to my Chicago colleague James Shapiro’s bizarre ideas about evolution, which he publishes weekly on HuffPo rather than in peer-reviewed journals. His Big Idea is that natural selection has not only been overemphasized in evolution, but appears to play very little role at all. Even though he’s spreading nonsense in … Continue reading James Shapiro goes after natural selection again (twice) on HuffPo
This time I’m not going to discuss Jim Shapiro’s misguided dismissal of natural selection (I’m done with him), but, like the Lernaean hydra, when you cut off one antiselectionist head, another pops up elsewhere. This has just happened at PuffHo, where Stuart Newman, a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, … Continue reading Another antiselectionist, Stuart Newman, surfaces at PuffHo
