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Evolution

Evolutionary Imagery: Illustrating (And Distorting) The History Of Life

By T. Ryan Gregory in Genomicron
August 21, 2010

My talk on evolutionary imagery at the Centre For Inquiry.

Here is a video posted by the Centre For Inquiry Canada of a talk I gave in Toronto a few months ago. Larry Moran was my gracious host, and there were some good discussions over beer not captured on camera. :-)

The links mentioned in response to a question:

Evolver Zone

Understanding Evolution

My paper on phylogenetic trees, and one on natural selection.

Old NID
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