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Still Arguing About Evolution -- The Fun Argument, Not the Other One

Dec 31, 2007

It's been a few weeks now since John Hawks and his colleagues published their paper contending that the rate of human evolution has been speeding up during the last 40,000 years -- but scientists are still mulling it over, if GTO's scan of blogs is any indicator. Over at the Gene Expression blog, p-ter covers the paper and gathers some fun comments. At evolgen, blogger RPM has been stewing over the publication recently. And it wouldn't be worth watching if John Hawks didn't defend himself, which he does here.

 

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