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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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To me, faith is not better because it is atheistic rather than theistic. I am an atheist because of a lack of faith, not because of a different faith.
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Category: Evolution
The latest Carnival of Evolution is at Evolving Thoughts, hosted by that guy Wilkins who usually covers the philosophical beat…but we'll let him out of that cage this one time. The Carnival of Evolution 48 will be held right...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science
A while back, I told you all about this small piece of the biochemistry of the fly eye — the pathways that make the brown and red pigments that color the eye. I left it with a question: if...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:34 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Science
Good news! The gorilla genome sequence was published in Nature last week, and adds to our body of knowledge about primate evolution. Here's the abstract: Gorillas are humans' closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable importance for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:57 AM • 29 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I am abrupt in my dismissal: I see no evidence nor plausible mechanism for group selection, and I don't even understand why some scientists continue to insist it had to have happened, other than a fondness for some kind of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:14 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Evolution
The latest Carnival of Evolution is buggy in more ways than one: I couldn't get it to load in Mac Firefox with all my adblockers in place (but it worked fine on Google Chrome), and also every link is full...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:29 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Science
I was going to talk about a cool recent paper that described the evolution of novelties by way of modifying modular gene networks, but I started scribbling it up and realized that I was constantly backtracking to explain some...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:59 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Science
Last week, I gave a talk at UNLV titled "A counter-revolutionary history of evo devo", and I'm afraid I was a little bit heretical. I criticized my favorite discipline. I felt guilty the whole time, but I think it's...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:44 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Conferences
It's on! Students here at UMM got together and have organized their very own Midwest Science of Origins Conference, to be held in Morris on 30 March-1 April. As the big name speaker, they've got Neil Shubin to tell us...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:54 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I was on Skeptically Speaking this week, weirdly and uncomfortably talking about the evolution of menstruation. I barrelled ahead anyway, even though I've got a Y chromosome and am not a member of the club. Fortunately, they also had Kate...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:38 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I've been naughty and neglecting to announce these things, so let's start correcting that: here's the 44th Carnival of Evolution. (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:30 AM • 2 Comments •
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