Finally: more bones.
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I’ve got a piece in tomorrow’s New York Times on new research into the evolution of penguins. There’s new work going on with penguin DNA and penguin fossils, such as this lovely 60-million-year old critter from New Zealand. It stood upright like living penguins, but still had wings it could bend at the elbow. In other words, just what you’d expect as flying ancestors evolved into full-blown penguins. While it’s amusing to have a little fun with pundits who try to use penguins as role models for family values, writing about real science is always more satisfying.
When it comes to evolution, the nation’s attention is focused these days on Dover, Pennsylvania, where parents are suing the local board of education for introducing creationism into the classroom. It’s certainly an important case, but if you really want to get a sense of what’s at stake in the struggle over evolution, I suggest you turn your attention south, to the sunshine state. Florida is trying to have it both ways when it comes to creationism, and sooner or later something’s going to have to give.
Continue reading “Florida, Where The Living Is Contradictory”
I’ve got a stack of new books that I want to get to this fall, although it’s not going to be easy. If your interests run in the same currents, you may be interested in some of them…
If you live in the New Haven area, I hope you’ll consider joining me tomorrow at 5 pm for a talk at the Yale Medical School about my book Soul Made Flesh.