Woah. Check out this huge whale: Behold Leviathan: the sperm whale that killed other whales (Not Exactly Rocket Science).
I wonder who would win in a fight, Leviathan or Megalodon?
Epic whale-eating contest!
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The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available online. This is a special issue dedicated to Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education on the occasion of her [redacted]th birthday! A few of the papers are free online, but others require a subscription. Some positive news announced in [...] Jonathan Eisen has pointed out some rather significant misinterpretation of evolutionary relationships in a recent New York Times article. Of course, misconceptions about evolutionary trees, the evolution of complex organs, the mechanism of natural selection, and even the nature of the terms “fact” and “theory” are rampant. I have tried to tackle these in [...] I am critical of the use of soundbites in discussing science, but in a few cases this can lead to some pretty memorable one-liners by scientists. For example, there is the line attributed to J.B.S. Haldane in response to the question of what can be inferred about the Creator from a study of nature: [...] Darwin’s views are often misrepresented to the point of caricature, as we all know, but there have also been plenty of examples of literal caricature of Darwin in the popular media. I recently gave some talks about evolutionary imagery, which included popular press cartoons from the 1800s that had a common theme of caricaturing [...] Today’s the day! 150 years ago, Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. If you haven’t read it yet in all that time, what’s your excuse? Side note: No sign of the special edition from Ray [...] Yep, according to a study coming out in PNAS and supported by NESCent. (As usual, the news comes out before the PNAS article is actually available, so I can’t comment on the study). Are Humans Still Evolving? Absolutely, Says A New Analysis Of A Long-term Survey Of Human Health Byars, S., D. Ewbank, et [...] From Oct. 9-30, the University of Guelph and Ed Video are hosting a special art exhibit entitled “This View of Life: Evolutionary Art for the Year of Darwin“. It was organized by professors in four departments: Integrative Biology, Philosophy, History, and English and Theatre Studies, and was curated by Scott McGovern of Ed Video. [...] I liked it. Overall, I think the Discovery Channel did a good job of capturing the painstaking work that goes into scientific research, in this case spanning more than 15 years from discovery to publication. Some other quick thoughts: This was not hype. If anything, it was pretty modest, given the amount and [...] The folks over at Science and Religion Today were interested in our study on graduate student conceptions of evolution, and asked me to give some thoughts on the question “How detailed an understanding of evolution do we need?” Here is my answer. If by “we” you mean “scientists,” then it is extremely important [...] |
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I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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