In Chapter 9, “Darwin in Denial,” author Tim Birkhead explains how Darwin’s failure to recognize avian female promiscuity resulted in a century of misconceptions about sexual selection
In Chapter 9, “Darwin in Denial,” author Tim Birkhead explains how Darwin’s failure to recognize avian female promiscuity resulted in a century of misconceptions about sexual selection
Asleep, The Restless Plant, Genetics of Original Sin, Disease Maps
A recent book exposes what Darwin got wrong about sexual behavior in birds, and what his error tells us about the evolution of scientific knowledge.
In Chapter 3, “Credibility: Validating Discovery Claims,” author Frederick Grinnell details the difficulty in making discoveries that buck current scientific paradigms.
Quirk, Darwin's Armada, The Death & Life of Monterey Bay, Elegance in Science
A newly minted PhD finds a 150-billion-base-pair-long DNA molecule in a plant.
The winding path that an interesting result takes to become a bona fide discovery is just one of the topics covered in this new book on the practice of science.
A book is born from pondering why sexual selection was, for so long, a minor component of evolutionary biology.