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Review: The Greatest Show on Earth

September 7th, 2009 by Joel

[cross-posted onto Young Australian Skeptics]

In previous books, Richard Dawkins has looked to promote new perspectives on natural selection, and at barriers to the understanding of evolution. In The Greatest Show on Earth, however, he looks at the evidence for evolution. You can read extracts from chapter one and chapter two online.
One of the book’s major [...]

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Utterly meaningless plug

July 7th, 2009 by Joel

One of my favourite podcasts is the Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. Personally, I found the interview with ornithologist Richard Prum in the most recent episode utterly fascinating, so, in the extraordinarily unlikely event that you’ve come across my blog but not the SGU, go listen (and subscribe) to it now!

I’ve currently got experiments running [...]

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