I have just finished this marvelous frolic through the philosophy of science and evolutionary biology. In the first essay he wonders why no one ever attacks Dalton (the scholar who formulated atomic theory) or Einstein's E=MC, the way they do evolution. The problem is they aren’t fair game. There is...
5/8/10 Update: Some recent evidence found in Europe and genome studies bears on the speculative outcome of this story. See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/science/07neanderthal.html?src=me&ref=general The image of the hunched-over, beetle-browed, dark-skinned, stupid-looking, primitive Neandertha...
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