3/4/2005

Evolution Blogs

Some Blogs on Evolution

PZ Myers, Ed Brayton, Reed Cartwright, Nicholas Matzke, et al., The Panda's Thumb (http://www.pandasthumb.org/) - The uber-blog. Contains contributions from some of the bloggers below, and then some. See the Panda's Thumb Hall of Fame here at EvoWiki.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula (http://pharyngula.org/) -- For example, An Intelligent Design "minority report" (http://pharyngula.org/comments?id=230_0_1_0_C), Molecular Machines in BioEssays (http://pharyngula.org/comments?id=224_0_1_0_C), Junk DNA (http://pharyngula.org/comments?id=P204_0_1_0_C), The DI and mangled limb homologies (http://pharyngula.org/comments?id=P153_0_1_0_C), Wells and Haeckel's Embryos (http://pharyngula.org/comments?id=P9_0_1_0_C)...heck, just search (http://pharyngula.org/search/index.php) the dang blog.
Carl Zimmer, The Loom (http://www.corante.com/loom) -- Zimmer has written many popular articles and books on evolution, and he and PZ Myers appear to read and comment on each other's blogs regularly.
Jason Rosenhouse, EvolutionBlog (http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/) -- Rosenhouse reviewed Dembski's book No Free Lunch in Evolution and is continuing ID criticism in EvolutionBlog.
El Paleofreak (http://paleofreak.blogalia.com) -- A really worthy to read blog, if you understand Spanish.
Reed Cartwright, De Rerum Natura (http://blog.rufus.ws/) -- A blog by a genetics graduate student active in the fight against dumbing down science education in Georgia.
John M. Lynch, Stranger Fruit (http://darwin.bc.asu.edu/blog/) -- A blog by a biologist and historian of biology at Arizona State University.
God Fearing Atheist, Ultradarwinian (http://ultradarwinian.blogspot.com/) -- A blog by the EvoWiki's own GFA on mostly dinosaur-related topics.
John Wilkins, Evolving Thoughts (http://evolvethought.blogspot.com/) -- John is a Talk.Origins veteran, Panda's Thumb (above) contributor and a certified philosopher of science looking at Evolution and Creationism from an Australian background.
Paolo Coccia, Darwin, Darwinismo ed Evoluzionismo (http://darwininitalia.blogspot.com/) -- An italian Blog with also international suggestions of news on Darwin, Darwinism and Evolutionary theory.
The Evolution Project (http://evolutionproject.blogspot.com/) documents current research into Evolution, countering the creationist claims that there is no research or evidence for evolution, and no applications of the theory.
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Good blogs where evolution occasionally comes up
The Improbable Blog (http://improbable.typepad.com/) -- The Daily Blog of the Annals of Improbable Research (http://www.improbable.com/)
Brian Leiter, The Leiter Reports (http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/) -- University of Texas, Austin, law and philosophy professor, often castigates creationists; see the section on Texas Taliban Alerts.
Chris C. Mooney, The Intersection (http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp) -- freelance skeptical journalist, writes frequently on creationism, including a devastating critique of the Discovery Institute's phony polls.
Steinsky, of EvoWiki, Tales from Steinsky (http://www.steinsky.me.uk/) -- Genetics student discusses politics, books, genetics, evolutionary psychology and the creationists' attempts to invade Britain.
Ed Brayton, Dispatches from the Culture Wars (http://mblog.com/dispatches_from_the_culture_wars/) -- There are other issues discussed, but evolution, creationism, and intelligent design are the most common subjects.
Tom Morris, Legalistic Fingerpointing (http://www.bbcity.co.uk/user/Tom) - "I'm not sure I count as 'good', but I do occasionally talk of creationism and evolution"
Rose Nunez, No Credentials (http://nocredentials.blogspot.com/) - Former English grad student fed up with awful thinking in the humanities. Often blogs on evolutionary psychology and the arts, especially literature.
Stephen Nodvin, Guns, Germs & Steeled (http://blog.nodvin.net/) - "Commentary on politics, religion, and science including environmental issues and creationism and evolution"
Massimo Pigliucci, Rationally thinking (http://blogs.salon.com/0004469/) - "A running commentary on life, the universe and everything, with particular attention to philosophy, science and pseudoscience."