Dr Jerry Coyne is an evolutionary biologist, professor at the University of Chicago, and an author.
Has ideology hijacked academia? In fields like evolutionary biology, the data should speak for itself, but what happens when scientific findings clash with cultural taboos? How do researchers navigate this minefield, and what can be done to protect science from political pressure moving forward?
Expect to learn how Dr Coyne views evolution from a different lens, how biologists view biological sex and gender, why science communicators became too afraid of backlash to speak plainly about data, what worries Dr Coyne most about the ideological pressures in academia today, if biology has been subverted by ideology, what Dr Coyne has learned about human nature from engaging with critics of his work, & much more…
Mentioned Books
“Because when I taught my first evolution course, which was probably about 1983 back in the place to see I Professor does when he or she writes a course is to see well”
Charles Darwin's seminal work laying the foundations for the principles of evolutionary biology via natural selection, based on evidence that he collected during his expedition on *HMS Beagle* in the 1830s.
“We certainly Darwin knew almost nothing about Speciation So it caused book the origin of species is a bit of a misnomer. He should call it the origin of adaptations Which might be a natural selection, but in terms of species that is the lumpiness of nature the fact that creatures are not”
Every so often the world of ideas is shaken by what the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn famously dubbed a "paradigm shift." As Robert Wright shows in this pathbreaking book, such a shift is occurring now - one that wi…
“Because when I taught my first evolution course, which was probably about 1983 back in the place to see I Professor does when he or she writes a course is to see well”
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a factIn all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentione…
“Yeah, I spent a lot of my time particularly. I was younger arguing against creation and creationism and Finally resulted in me having a writer book about it called why evolution is true Because when I taught my first evolution course, which was probably about 1983 back in the place to see”
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trac…
“Because when I taught my first evolution course, which was probably about 1983 back in the place to see I Professor does when he or she writes a course is to see well”