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Why Evolution is True is a popular science book by American biologist Jerry Coyne. It was published in 2009, dubbed "Darwin Year" as it marked the bicentennial of Charles Darwin and the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection .
Jerry Allen Coyne (born December 30, 1949) [4] [5] is an American biologist and skeptic known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design.A professor emeritus at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, he has published numerous papers on the theory of evolution.
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible is a 2015 book by the biologist Jerry Coyne concerning the relationship between science and religion.Coyne argues that religion and science are incompatible, by surveying the history of science and stating that both religion and science make claims about the universe, yet only science is open to the fact that it may be wrong.
Molyneux's problem is a thought experiment in philosophy [1] concerning immediate recovery from blindness. It was first formulated by William Molyneux , and notably referred to in John Locke 's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).
The book is divided into two parts. Part One is a review of "new facts and new non-selectional mechanisms that have been discovered in biology". [4] Part Two is a discussion of "the logical and conceptual bases of the theory of natural selection". [5]
Prior to the evolution hearings, in December 2000 after the Pratt County, Kansas, school board revised its tenth-grade biology curriculum at the urging of intelligent design proponents to include material that encourages students to question the theory of evolution, The Pratt Tribune published a letter from Jerry Coyne challenging Wells's ...
Michael Majerus's 1998 book Melanism: Evolution in Action is an adaptation of Kettlewell's The Evolution of Melanism, which discussed criticisms of Kettlewell's original experimental methods. [18] When the biologist Jerry Coyne reviewed this book in Nature , he stated that the most serious problem was that only two peppered moths had been found ...
Jerry Coyne (1949–): American evolutionary biologist and professor, known for his books on evolution and commentary on the intelligent design debate. [79] Francis Crick (1916–2004): English molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist; noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.