The 45th Carnival of Evolution is now available!

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Troy Britain

And it’s just lousy with bugs! This month the Carnival of Evolution hive is infesting Splendour Awaits, weblog of photographer and amateur insect enthusiast Adrian Thysse.

Creep or crawl your way over there and check out all the invertebrate wonderfulnessness!

Note: The Carnival is trying something a bit new this go around by presenting the article summaries and links in Google Docs – Presentation (a slide show format). If you have any difficulties seeing the slide window, please try another browser (Google Chrome worked best for me).

Previous Carnivals of Evolution:

CoE #44 CoE#43
Carnival of Evolution #42 (The Hitchhikers Edition)
CoE #41 CoE #40 CoE #39 CoE #38
CoE #37 CoE #36 CoE #35 CoE #34
CoE #33 CoE #32 CoE #31 CoE #30

If you missed any of these you’ll definitely want to go check them out!

Creationists are just buggy about bugs

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Troy Britain

A few months back Frank Sherwin, “Senior Science Lecturer” at the Institute for Creation Research, launched an amusing attack on evolution that is nigh on word-salad; this time focusing on insects, and how they are supposedly problematic for evolutionary theory.

As usual it is stated with the confidence and the faux authority that is typical of “creation science” practitioners but when you actually look at it and try to make sense of what is being said it quickly becomes apparent that much of it is really unintelligible nonsense.

Read on»

Happy Darwin/Lincoln Day!

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Troy Britain

…the Emancipator and the Evolutionizer, together again!!!

Happy Darwin/Lincoln Day everyone!!!

The Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution is now available

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Troy Britain

Ladies and Gentlemen… Mesdames et Messieurs… Damen und Herren… The Carnival of Evolution XLIV! This month the carnival is inhabiting The Atavism (great name) and is cleverly set up as a scientific symposium. See for yourself.

Previous Carnivals of Evolution:

CoE #43
Carnival of Evolution #42 (The Hitchhikers Edition)
CoE #41 CoE #40 CoE #39 CoE #38
CoE #37 CoE #36 CoE #35 CoE #34
CoE #33 CoE #32 CoE #31 CoE #30

If you missed any of these you’ll definitely want to go check them out!

Symphony of Science – Evolution

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Troy Britain

Not my cup of tea* musically but fun just the same:

Hat tip to Michael Barton at The Dispersal of Darwin.

*technically no cup of tea is my cup of tea, as I loathe tea.

The Carnival of Evolution #42 is up!

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Troy Britain

Oh no, not again…

Yep, it’s time for the Carnival of Evolution (#42)!!! This month it is being held at The Ocelloid and in case you can’t tell there is a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy theme. So grab your towel, pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and head on over for the latest batch of evolutionary goodness.

It’s either that or Vogon poetry…

Previous Carnivals of Evolution:

Life! Don’t talk to me about life.

Darwin’s Pigeons

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Troy Britain

This seemed apropos:

[Hat tip to the WhyEvolutionIsTrue channel on YouTube.]

The Carnival of Evolution #38 is up!

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Troy Britain

And it’s a doozy! I know I say something like that every month and I mean it, but this time it’s truer than ever. This months host is the estimable Larry Moran (Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto) on his excellent blog Sandwalk.

There are lots and lots of great links to evolution related articles for you to peruse (even if none of them are mine because my opus on creationists and arthropods keeps getting longer and longer).

As a bit of housekeeping I am going to list links to the past CoE below so I can clean up the blog a bit (all those green glowy spheres make me feel bad about not being more productive /honest self reflection).