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Who I am

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Native Texan, Evolutionary Biologist, and WFTDA athlete.

Other Things I Do And Think About

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Phylogenetics, cafe racers, the Sea of Cortez, rock 'n' roll, tetrodotoxin, circuit bending, and the Iditarod.

Why I edit Evolution

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  • Because I can
  • Because it still gives me chills to read and sense Darwin's profound realizations while writing the first edition of the The Origin
  • Because Science is a Method, not a POV
  • Because Evolution is still not taught widely enough in schools
  • Because popular culture is riddled with inaccurate misconceptions about how Evolution works and what it implies
  • Because integrity and education are the best weapons against agendas and ignorance
  • Because agendas and ignorance abound
  • Because if the history of Life over Deep Time isn't the most interesting thing you can think of, I intend to change that

Five Things that Evolutionary Biology is

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  • The study of shared (common) ancestry of all living things
  • The study of organismal change over time
  • The study of the genetic, reproductive, and ecological mechanisms that drive this change
  • The study of how a phylogenetic and evolutionary perspective informs all other fields of Biology
  • A true science, where falsifiable hypotheses are routinely tested

Five Things that Evolutionary Biology is not

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  • An "alternative belief system" that can be accepted or rejected based on personal opinion
  • A pending hypothesis awaiting proof or disproof
  • Atheism
  • A field whose conclusions directly address issues of spirituality, first origins, ethics, or the meaning of life
  • A field where the core principles are doubted or debated among scientists

"Why Any God, if S/he or It Exists, Would Want You To Understand That Evolution is True "

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  • Coming soon, stay tuned... ;-)