The Fossils Speak, but Hardly with One Voice

Editor's note : We are delighted to inaugurate a new series, "Talk to the Fossils," by our friend and colleague Denyse O'Leary. See here for her Introduction.

University of Chicago biochemist James Shapiro, not a design theorist, offers in one of his lectures four kinds of rapid, evolutionary change that Darwin "could not have imagined": horizontal DNA transfer, symbiogenesis, genome doubling, and built-in mechanisms of genome restructuring. His approach is in sharp contrast to the "defend Da...