Editor’s Selections: Dispersants, Delicious Death, and Darwin Defended
September 2nd, 2010 Editor's Selections 6 CommentsJarrett Byrnes focuses on posts in ecology, environmental sciences, and evolution. He blogs at I’m a chordata, urochordata!
- The folk over at Deep Sea News have begun a multipart exploration of what we do and do not know about the dispersants being used in the Gulf.
- Poor nematodes. When they smell something yummy, the just don’t know, is it food or is it death?
- Greg Laden reports on yet another fallacious attempt to declare Darwin dead by a journalist – despite the study being reported on giving strong support for some predictions of Natural Selection.
- Similarly, Ecographa and Denim and Tweed have some excellent (and excoriating) comments about the latest articles in Nature about the evolution of eusociality and cooperation.