Jerry Coyne
Viewpoint: Scientific American has become a ’scientific sewer’, promoting ideological rubbish on the evolution of male-female differences, claims University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne
I read this new article in Scientific American claiming that women constituted a high proportion of hunters in early hunter-gatherer ...
Viewpoint: ‘Who gets to decide what causes harm?’ Why Nature’s new editorial guidelines are problematic
This new article in Nature Human Behavior Is well-intentioned, aiming to purge bigotry from science, but goes way over the ...
Has Scientific American strayed too far from science?
I’ve written about a dozen posts calling out Scientific American for its fulminating wokeness (give me another word if you ...
Viewpoint: Will “cancel culture” claim Darwin?
Given the scientific and political luminaries who have fallen under the axe, it’s not beyond possibility that Charles Darwin himself ...
Viewpoint: 5 arguments for God’s existence from NY Times columnist Ross Douthat — and 5 reasons why he’s wrong
[In a New York Times essay, columnist and Catholic Ross] Douthat not only advances some of the common and unconvincing ...
Viewpoint: ‘Mammoth debacle’ — The not-so-encouraging backstory to George Church’s $15 million start-up hoping to resurrect the extinct wooly mammoth
[A] team of scientists and entrepreneurs has formed a company called Colossal that aims to “bring back the woolly mammoth.” ...
Viewpoint: Did this philosopher disprove evolutionary psychology? ‘No—certainly not’
Subrena Smith, an assistant professor of philosophy at The University of New Hampshire, has made a bold claim in the ...
Viewpoint: Biologist Jerry Coyne challenges view that sex is ‘a spectrum, not a binary’—such claims ‘undermine public trust in science’
As a biologist, I get especially irked at the repeated claim that sex in humans is “a spectrum, not a ...
Viewpoint: Science needs to embrace the difference between sex and gender—without abandoning the past
Lots of sites, including three scientific societies, have rejected the new Health and Human Services guidelines that provide a classification of ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how the New York Times botched an op-ed about placebos
As part of the continuing decline of the New York Times, we have this new op-ed by Steve Petrow, a writer ...
New Yorker epigenetic piece draws ire from scientists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I recently gave readers ...
Does biology support existence of human races?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the touchiest ...
Did children of Holocaust survivors really inherit trauma in genes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There are now several ...
Why some organisms sacrifice own reproduction for evolution of community
In 2010 three authors—Martin Nowak, Corina Tarnita, and E. O. Wilson—published a paper in Nature (reference and link below) purporting ...
Were insects pollinating 100 million years ago? Ancient plants found in amber suggest so
Scientists recently discovered a 100-million-year-old piece of amber, which revealed the oldest evidence yet of sexual reproduction in a flowering ...
The trouble with epigenetics
The following is an excerpt. Further, genetic analysis of adaptations that have arisen in evolution (like differences between closely related ...