You've written that "natural selection is essentially unpredictable because it is the outcome of sometimes competing tendencies and adaptations that at first sight may be advantageous remain unachieva...
Let's talk about your book Galileo's Finger. Can you tell me about the title and what it represents? - An interview with Peter Atkins at the Future of Science Conference in Venice, Italy September 200...
In your book Galileo's Finger, I was suprised to find a list of arguments against creationism. If creationism isn't science why bother addressing it at all? - An interview with Peter Atkins at the Fut...
Beyond the intellectual aspects, are there more tangible dangers in having a large segment of the population that doesn't accept evolution? What do we do about it? - An interview with Peter Atkins at ...
In your book you point out that "Darwin and his contemporaries...knew nothing about the nature of heredity. Can you explain how the emergence of genetics helped strengthen and support the theory of ev...