I’ve been turning this one over in my mind for a couple of days, trying to get it to a point where it sounded coherent enough to blog it. Think for a moment about the sexual displays of various animals. Not every secondary sexual characteristic or behavior; let’s just consider the extreme examples. The standard [...]
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In Dawkins’ words
I admire Richard Dawkins, I really do. How many people can take credit for not one but two paradigm-shifting ideas (selfish gene theory and meme theory) and live long enough to see both ideas profoundly affect scholarly thinking? But sometimes I wonder about his choice of words. For a scientist, he’s remarkably engaging when writing [...]
