evolution

Biologist Jerry Coyne tackles the assumptions of 'evolutionary psychiatry' in his commentary on the supposed adaptive nature of depression.

The first human revolution was led by women, argues Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group in this article with which we do not agree but…

Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group looks at the transition from ape to human and quantity into quality, plus the importance of…

Philosopher David Buller tackles the evidential claims of primary exponents of Evolutionary…

A letter from Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin and members of the Sociobiology Study Group outlining criticisms of, and objections to, EO…

Stephen Jay Gould tackles the notion that existing social hierarchies reflect innate abilities in his essay on the heritability of intelligence.

In the second part of his critique of 'ultra Darwinism', Gould tackles the methodology of evolutionary psychology while defending the idea that…

Paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould tackles 'ultra-Darwinism' in the first part of his response to Daniel C. Dennett's 'Darwin's…

Marxist biologists Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins remember the life and career of…

In 1998, the Discovery Institute (DI), a conservative intelligent-design think-tank based in Seattle, produced the now infamous 'Wedge' document. The document was meant only for members of the DI but was leaked not long after. The Wedge describes the short and long-term goals of intelligent design advocates, not just in displacing evolution from the science curriculum in US public schools, but with the broader…