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scienceblogs.com - 10/30/2009
Richard Lewontin—Genetic Determination and Adaptation: Two Bad Metaphors
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It was a fine evening here in Chicago, with all these superstars of evolutionary biology in attendance. It was also an information-dense evening — I tried to keep up on my little laptop, but I know I missed a lot. Fortunately, I'm not alone: Rob Mitchum and Jeremy Manier were also ...

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Pleiotropy:  Evolution highlights VI

Evolution News & Views:  Reflections on the University of Chicago Darwin 2009 Fest

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Evolution highlights VI
Pleiotropy — PZ Myers is reporting from the Darwin/Chicago 2009 conference ( schedule ) organized by Jerry Coyne. Talks by Richard Lewontin on bad metaphors in evolution, and by Ron Numbers on the history of creationism . Tomorrow Douglas Futuyma, Jerry Coyne, and Daniel Dennett, among others. On his blog, Coyne has a post about the refutation of the worst paper of the year in PNAS: Caterpillars evolved from onychophorans by hybridogenesis . Complete dismissal of that zany paper.

Reflections on the University of Chicago Darwin 2009 Fest
Evolution News & Views — Thanks to various live-bloggers, you can read summaries of all of the University of Chicago Darwin 2009 conference presentations. The conference organizers have also promised to make video podcasts available of all the lectures shortly. By contrast, what follows below is -- as they say in sports television -- color commentary. This will be a longer post, because much was said that calls for comment. Bottom line: this was an outstanding conference, where any ID theorist would have enjoyed himself, and learned a lot, if he didn’t mind a bit of mocking ...