Remembering Charles Darwin #OnThisDay , as he died today in 1882. 'There is grandeur in this view of life...from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.'

Seen in an X bio: 'Believe in the EXISTING alternatives, not in the imaginary best'.

Me subtweeting:

Death’s-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos. This is the third caterpillar instar of one of the world’s most famous moths. And let’s be honest: its caterpillars are some of the most beautiful ever 🥰
#acherontiaatropos #deathsheadhawkmoth #totenkopschwärmer #insects #lepidoptera …

Do the mutations that drive evolution improve many traits or few? How might this change over the course of evolution? Excited to share our new work exploring these questions in the first 2 steps of adaptation w/ Yuping Li Gavin Sherlock Dmitri Petrov 💔 🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tänk vad fascinerande det är att bedriva åsiktsarkeologi på X!

Här är ett inlägg av Göran Rosenberg som inte åldrats väl, och en artikel av Gina Gustavsson som heller inte gjort det. Från 2021.

Idag vet vi att Rosenberg och Gustavsson drog alltför förhastade slutsatser.

A formulation like this makes me wonder:

What does philosopher John Odling-Smee mean by 'classical theory of evolution'?

What should biologists do to do 'justice to Darwin's legacy'?

What kind of experiments are missing?

This gives me strong vibes of strawman arguments.

Goodbye Nick Bostrom. Though shall not be missed, and this is another blow to the increasingly discredited hyperboled EA-movement of tech bros and billionairies from Silicon Valley.

truthdig.com/articles/nick-…