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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Now there is definitely no excuse not to be properly informed on evolution.

As I have said many times, there is simply no honest reason for our community not to be properly informed on the fact of evolution given the considerable amount of quality information on the subject available in print, online and in electronic media. In fact, one has to work hard at maintaining evolution denialism in the face of the overwhelming evidence for common descent and large scale evolutionary change. Sadly, for those who privilege human dogma over the witness of the natural world, there is little one can do for them while they maintain committed to defending fundamentalist distortions of the Bible above the dual revelation of nature and Bible. However, for those who value truth over dogma, there has never been a better time to understand more about our ancient, evolving creation.

The journal Current Biology has a special issue on the history of life on Earth, and features a number of articles and reviews written by some of the leading experts in each field:

Editorials

Feature

Primers
Laura Eme, W. Ford Doolittle

Quick guide

Reviews
Maximilian J. Telford, Graham E. Budd, HervĂ© Philippe
Stephen L. Brusatte, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Erich D. Jarvis
Abe Pressman, Celia Blanco, Irene A. Chen

For a limited time, these articles are freely available, so there is now definitely no excuse for not being properly informed on the overwhelming evidence for evolution from some of the leading experts in their respective fields.