Who I am edit
Native Texan, Evolutionary Biologist, and WFTDA athlete.
Other Things I Do And Think About edit
Phylogenetics, cafe racers, the Sea of Cortez, rock 'n' roll, tetrodotoxin, circuit bending, and the Iditarod.
Why I edit Evolution edit
- Because I can
- Because it still gives me chills to read and sense Darwin's profound realizations while writing the first edition of the The Origin
- Because Science is a Method, not a POV
- Because Evolution is still not taught widely enough in schools
- Because popular culture is riddled with inaccurate misconceptions about how Evolution works and what it implies
- Because "There is grandeur in this view of life"
- Because integrity and education are the best weapons against agendas and ignorance
- Because agendas and ignorance abound
- Because if the history of Life over Deep Time isn't the most interesting thing you can think of, I intend to change that
Five Things that Evolutionary Biology is edit
- The study of shared (common) ancestry of all living things
- The study of organismal change over time
- The study of the genetic, reproductive, and ecological mechanisms that drive this change
- The study of how a phylogenetic and evolutionary perspective informs all other fields of Biology
- A true science, where falsifiable hypotheses are routinely tested
Five Things that Evolutionary Biology is not edit
- An "alternative belief system" that can be accepted or rejected based on personal opinion
- A pending hypothesis awaiting proof or disproof
- Atheism
- A field whose conclusions directly address issues of spirituality, first origins, ethics, or the meaning of life
- A field where the core principles are doubted or debated among scientists
"Why Any God, if S/he or It Exists, Would Want You To Understand That Evolution is True " edit
- Coming soon, stay tuned... ;-)