The only animals you’ll usually find in municipal swimming pool are humans. It’s the end of the year, though, and Maplewood, Missouri is one of many communities that invites dogs into the pool before draining the water. Out of curiosity, I visited Maplewood’s pool today and saw numerous dogs anxious to hit the water.
Entering a [...]
It’s difficult to overcome the prejudice that having more choices is always better. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz made a convincing case that too much choice can overload and paralyze us. I couldn’t help but think of the paradox of choice while grocery shopping yesterday.
One of the major chains of grocery stores in [...]
Where did dogs come from? The answer is wolves (not foxes).
Here’s a thought experiment. Go back 20,000 years and check out the dogs. Yikes! There were no dogs only 20,000 years ago. This 1994 story from Discover is a good starting point to learn about the beginnings of dogs. Another good source is Wikipedia’s article [...]
This NYT article by Richard Dawkins is just too much fun to not read. And when I mentioned “dogs,” I meant it.
If mutation, rather than selection, really limited evolutionary change [as Behe argues], this should be true for artificial no less than natural selection. Domestic breeding relies upon exactly the same pool of mutational variation [...]
