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.
It’s Saturday, June 18 (I think that’s right), and I”m waking up in Los Angeles, where of course the weather is perfect but the traffic is dreadful. As Dionne Warwick sang, “L.A. is a great big freeway.” And it is, especially on Friday afternoons. This is a famous day in history, for it was on … Continue reading Saturday: Hili dialogue
Reader Gayle Ferguson, you may recall, is a biologist at Massey University in Aukland, New Zealand (she once worked with Matthew in Manchester), and rescues batch after batch of orphaned kittens, for which she gets the title of Official Website Kitten Rescuer™. (One of the kittens she saved is Jerry Coyne the Cat.) She also … Continue reading Spot the scorpionfish
It’s Ceiling Cat’s Day, and in one week exactly I’ll be arriving, bleary-eyed and jet-lagged, at the Hell on Earth known as Heathrow Airport. Here in Chicago, we’ve had a great spell of warm weather, with temperatures yesterday and today reaching nearly 50°F (10°C). It’s the last day in January, a day on which Guy … Continue reading Sunday: Hili dialogue (with Leon and Jerry Coyne the Cat lagniappe):
Well, I haven’t directly left any of my own genes to posterity, though about a quarter of them reside in my nephew (who has yet to produce progeny), and a few are in my cousins. But it doesn’t matter: I’ve left my legacy in cats. Reader Gayle Ferguson named an abandoned kitten “Jerry Coyne” a … Continue reading Two more cats named Jerry Coyne
Yes, it’s almost the first birthday of Jerry Coyne the Cat, an orange tabby male found abandoned as a tiny kitten in a cardboard box in a petrol station in New Zealand. Thanks to the diligence and kindness of Gayle Ferguson, Jerry and His Four Sisters were saved and all adopted out. Let’s remember what Jerry … Continue reading Jerry Coyne the Cat has become one
A few odds and ends before I have coffee and find something subtantive to say! I have two leftover pictures from the NYC Great Cat vs d*g debate, for which, of course, the fix was in well in advance. We was robbed! First, my big treasure from New York: an autographed copy of Joyce Carol … Continue reading Special cat-related news, Tuesday edition
We have three items for today, including an update on Jerry Coyne the Cat. First, a wonderful video called “I Am a Cat,” profiling talented and highly adorable Kaori Mitsushima, an artist who specializes in cats. (her website is here and her Facebook page is here). As you’ll see, she has two cats—Pon-Pon and Araise (appears to be a Turkish Van … Continue reading Caturday felid trifecta: Cat artist, Jerry the Cat, and exercising with your cat (plus bonus)
This is a question for readers to answer. I have my own theories, but I want to hear yours. Dog breeds (I’ll spell out “dog” this one time) are of course tremendously more variable than breeds of cats. It doesn’t matter what trait you pick: behavior, color, skeletal configuration, size, and so on—dogs are more … Continue reading Why are dog breeds so variable compared to cat breeds?
