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A preview of The Story of Life in 25 Fossils
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Donald R. Prothero's The Story of Life in 25 Fossils (Columbia University Press, 2015). The preview consists of chapter 15, "Terror of the Seas," about the discovery and the evolutionary history of Kronosaurus — "one of the…
CSTA raises its voice for climate change education
The California Science Teachers Association adopted a position statement on climate change education at its board meeting on September 12, 2015. Observing that "[t]here is broad consensus that the Earth's climate is warming" as a result of human activity, the statement affirms, "As science…
Homo naledi—Another Awesome Twig on the Human Family Tree, Part 1
I woke up last Thursday morning to an NPR report on a new human fossil find. I’m not in any way a morning person, so not a lot of detail made its way into my sleepy head, but I heard enough to know one thing: I’d be writing a blog on this…after coffee. I’ve written about human evolution a few…
Answer Monday!
I don’t always set out to trick you, honest. But this week, I totally did. When I took this photo I was all pleased with myself, and told my friend Jessica (the curator of the MCZ’s invertebrate collection) that it’d trick everyone. I was hoping that a lot of you would think that this critter was…
Kitzmiller in the York Daily Record
As the tenth anniversary of Kitzmiller v. Dover approaches, the York Daily Record (September 11, 2015) devoted a suite of stories to the landmark case, which established the unconstitutionality of teaching “intelligent design” creationism in the public schools. "Q&A with…
Chew On This: A Story For Your Ears Only, Part 1
A basic understanding of evolution lets us know that we are all descended, with modifications, from a common ancestor. If we trace our lineage back far enough we will find our kinship with fish over 400 million years ago (mya). Moving forward in time from our formerly fishy selves, we find…
Fossil Friday!
Like my last fossil, a common everyday trilobite, this specimen came from the Hunsrueck slate in Germany. You can see the fool’s-gold color typical of pyritization a bit better here. But what is it? I’ve told you the locality (and therefore the age), so I’m not going to feel bad that there is no…
Huxley’s Paley, Part 2
Thomas Henry Huxley’s admiration of William Paley’s Natural Theology (1802) is relatively obscure, at least in comparison to that of Charles Darwin (who wrote to a friend just before the Origin was published, “I do not think I hardly ever admired a book more than Paley’s…
RNCSE 35:5 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 35, number 5 — contains Anila Asghar, Sarah Bean, Wendi O’Neill, and Brian Alters's "Biological Evolution in Canadian Science Curricula…

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