A brief musing on environmental myths. I’m writing this in response to a number of prevalent and recurring myths or assumptions that permeate discussions about the environment. Broadly, I’d describe them as: In slightly more detail: the myth of perfection presumes that the way the world is now—or was—say fifty, or a hundred, or five […]
What’s wrong with this sentence: “This is how evolution stops bad mutations building up to dangerously high levels in a species”? I count at least four things wrong… This musing was prompted by the following snippet: When we reproduce, our children inherit a shuffled bag of mutations, and those with a collection of particularly bad ones are […]
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