I’m going to repost a one year old version of this particular “falsehood” as is. My plan is to rewrite this post in connection with an upcoming edition of my random installment “Everything you know is sort of wrong” on Skeptically Speaking. But for now, I thought I’d just get it out and […]

Color is funny. Anthropologists have long known that different cultures have different relationships, linguistically and in day to day practice, to the color spectrum. For example, the Efe Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers of the Ituri Forest describe things as white, black, or red, and that’s it. They live in a world of green. […]

Please consider visiting The Creation Museum. This is a “web carnival” of Internet resources about the new museum in Kentucky.

… kind of like creationism?
It just so happens that I’ve done some archaeology related to homeopathic medicine. Sounds strange, but it is true. I’m just a foot soldier on that project, so everything I know comes from the research of my colleagues. Minneapolis, it turns out, was one of the major centers […]

First, where does the idea that poor people have more babies than rich people come from?
When I think about this, four things come to mind. One is the comments I’ve heard from people I know who live in the middle east. Arab, Palestinian, Egyptian, Israeli, Jew, does not matter. It is […]

To review, these are the first three posts in this series of The Falsehoods:
1.False Pearls
2.Falsehoods Revisited #1
3.Is it true that human beings are no longer subject to Natural Selection?
And now on to the questions: “What is the future of Human Evolution?”
In his gentle critique of my earlier post in this series, Larry Moran proposes […]

In discussing The Falsehoods, I left off with with two questions that I’ll rephrase here as assertions (or hypotheses) to consider:

Human beings are no longer subject to Natural Selection.

Human beings will not give rise to a new species … what we got is it.

The first assertion is a widely held belief with absolutely no foundation, […]

As I approach the beginning of a new semester of casting true pearls, I am moved to write about Falsehoods in more detail. (Not all of them, lucky for you!)
I will do an easy one: “Evolution has stopped for humans.”
This is a true test litmus kind of question. Why? Because […]

Teaching Evolutionary Biology is hard. It is not easy, like teaching astrophysics would be. Nobody knows anything about astrophysics, so all the instructor has to do is to find the empty space in the student’s brain and put some astrophysics in there.
The problem with Evolutionary Biology is that everybody already knows lots of […]