Endless Forms Most Beautiful
"There is grandeur in this view of lift, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
Charles Robert Darwin (1809 Feb 12
B 1882 Apr 19)Origins
These essays examine the origins of the modern theory of evolution through analysis of several key contributions to the literature on the subject.
GO TO: Natural Theology
GO TO: On the Origin of Species
GO TO: On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type
Living Chemistry
These essays look at the sine qua non of the modern theory of evolution, at chemistry gone wild.
GO TO: The Law of Entropy I: Abiotic Organic Synthesis
GO TO: The Miller Experiments
GO TO: The Genetic Code
GO TO: The Concept of Heredity
GO TO: The Gene in Cells
GO TO: Molecular Heredity
GO TO: How DNA Works
GO TO: The Epigenetic Complication
The Dance of Mutation and Selection
These essays examine the interplay between contingency and necessity in auto-dynamic chemistry and some of the ways in which our understanding of it can go wrong.
GO TO: Descent With Modification
GO TO: Just So Stories
GO TO: Social Darwinism
GO TO: Eugenics
History of Life on Earth
GO TO: The Linnaean Classification
GO TO: The Cambrian Explosion
The Devonian Era (Age of Fishes)
GO TO: Tiktaalik
The Mesozoic Era (Age of Reptiles)
GO TO: The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction
The Cenozoic Era (Age of Mammals)
GO TO:
Human Evolution
GO TO: Why Humans Don'
t Have ClawsGO TO: How An Ape Got Up And Walked
GO TO: Five Questions on Human Sexuality
GO TO: The Calvin Throwing Hypothesis
Creationism
These essays take a look at one of the funniest intellectual scams in human history. Though the consequences of getting people to believe the Creationists'
crap may be tragic, the crap itself is hilarious. If you need any further proof that we descended from a bunch of hooting, howling apes, well, here it is! "Only a Theory"GO TO: The Word of God
GO TO: Were You There?
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