Derry, J. F. 2022. “The Role of Expertise in Discovery. Comment on Sutton and Griffiths (2018). Using Date Specific Searches on Google Books to Disconfirm Prior Origination Knowledge Claims …. Social Sciences 7: 66“ Social Sciences 11, no. 7: 289. doi.org/10.3390/socsci…

ScienceFraud Caveat lector! That has been debunked many times before. ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/matthe… Matthew was not a uniformitarian, did not think natural selection changed species between catastrophes and did not accept continuous evolution. Apples and oranges.

The DCP still has some final Darwin Day treats coming! Keep an eye out for more this week.

#Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! On this special occasion, we want to acknowledge and highlight the amazing women working at Charles Darwin Research Station.

6:12am Pride of Lion on the move "13 lions, mostly cubs, were on the road. They all got up and ran into the bush when their mothers called them. In total there were about 20 lions" H4-2, 550m N of the S25 Near Crocodile Bridge 5/5 Tinged by Erland984

It's #CharlesDarwin's birthday. Here's his career in specimens we have at Museum of Zoology, Cambridge: 🐞His student beetle collection 🐟Fish from his Beagle voyage 🐦The famous Galápagos finches from the Beagle; key evidence for his evolutionary theories 🦀The barnacles he studied for 8 yrs

.@JoachimDagg

Most popular post so far this month with 100s of views: how someone claimed to have made an important discovery, but all they did was confirm what the original author said decades before, then go get the related science wrong anyway. mrsuttonntu.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/pop…

In our favourite letters series for #DarwinDay, Alison Pearn talks about a letter Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Hooker after finishing corrections to the fifth edition of Origin of Species in 1869. Learn more about the changes Darwin made to Origin and the six editions.

Believing conspiracy theories isn't always a sign of stupidity. It may be a mark of narcissism. Grandiose narcissists want to feel special. "I know something you don't." Vulnerable narcissists have self-centered paranoia. "Of all the people, powerful groups are out to get ME."

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Dagg, Joachim L. and Derry, J.F. (2022) Patrick Matthew’s synthesis of catastrophism and transformism. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2…

“Hurrah the monkey book has come!” Charles Darwin wrote to his friend Thomas Huxley #OnThisDay in 1863, on receiving his new book: Man's Place in Nature. In the text, Huxley addressed human origins, "the question of questions for mankind, a problem that underlies all others."

'Where conflicts of science and religion arose, then and after, the issue was not so much whether science contradicted the Scriptures, but how much latitude for interpretation there was in the latter – and whose interpretation should prevail.' the-tls.co.uk/articles/magis…

Frank Bosman offers a critical evaluation of Rick and Morty's approach to atheism and nihilism in Global Sceptical Publics: From non-religious print media to digital atheism. Free to download! ow.ly/LTBF50Mrrvs #openaccess #nonreligion

No legacy is so rich as honesty. by jfderry unbound.com/books/the-diss…

The Dissent of Man continues: The Ideological Subversion of Biology | Skeptical Inquirer skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-id…

It’s in the book DISSENT OF MAN

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

To celebrate Charles Darwin’s Birthday, we’re offering a £500 / $700 discount on the iconic Darwin Monkey statue. Limited-time offer — valid until the end of February 2026. 🧠🐒 darwinmonkey.com [email protected]