On Phylogenies and Analogies

Our recent book Science and Human Origins has caught the attention of a number of evolutionary bloggers. Go here to get the flavor. Even our Facebook page has seen as spike in commenting. But most have chosen to recycle a review by a graduate student named Paul McBride, so as to avoid reading the book itself, and dealing with its arguments.

His posts (six of them and almost as long as our book!) can be found here. He raises a number of issues that we plan to address. To begin I will discuss h...