Topic: Evolution
Quote: True. It (scientific output) is on the EAM side, with none of it on the darwinist pseudo-science religion, nor on the side of the xtianist bible-worshiping religion.
Response: And you wondered why I referred to the last issue of Evolution.\nLet\'s look at the output in a single recent copy of Biology Letters that I was checking out this morning. Not all of it deals with evolutionary questions being addressed by evolutionary biologists, but by far the majority meets that qualification.\nBiology Letters, The Royal Society, Volume 2, issue 4 (December 22, 2006)\n1) The influence of social affiliation on individual vocal signatures of northern resident killer whales ( Orcinus orca). Nousek, Anna E.; Slater, Peter J.B.; Wang, Chao; Miller, Patrick J.O., p. 481 \xe2\x80\x93 484\n2) Rotational feeding in caecilians: putting a spin on the evolution of cranial design. Measey, G. John ; Herrel, Anthony, p. 485 \xe2\x80\x93 487\n3) Avian predators attack aposematic prey more forcefully when they are part of an aggregation. Skelhorn, John ; Ruxton, Graeme D., p. 488 \xe2\x80\x93 490\n4) Sex-role reversed nuptial feeding reduces male kleptoparasitism of females in Zeus bugs (Heteroptera; Veliidae). Arnqvist, G\xc3\xb6ran ; Jones, Ther\xc3\xa9sa M. ; Elgar, Mark A., p. 491 \xe2\x80\x93 493\n5) Anatomical basis for camouflaged polarized light communication in squid. M\xc3\xa4thger, Lydia M. ; Hanlon, Roger T. , p. 494 \xe2\x80\x93 496\n6) A killer whale social network is vulnerable to targeted removals. Williams, Rob ; Lusseau, David, p. 497 \xe2\x80\x93 500\n7) Parent\xe2\x80\x93offspring conflict and motivational control of brooding in an amphipod (Crustacea). Dick, Jaimie T.A. ; Elwood, Robert W., p. 501 \xe2\x80\x93 504\n8) Chimpanzee and felid diet composition is influenced by prey brain size, Shultz, Susanne ; Dunbar, R.I.M., p. 505 \xe2\x80\x93 508\n9) Killer whales are capable of vocal learning. Foote, Andrew D. ; Griffin, Rachael M. ; Howitt, David ; et al., p. 509 \xe2\x80\x93 512\n10) Paternity loss in contrasting mammalian societies. Clutton-Brock, T.H. ; Isvaran, K., p. 513 \xe2\x80\x93 516\n11) Consistent annual schedules in a migratory shorebird. Battley, Phil F., p. 517 \xe2\x80\x93 520\n12) Silent night: adaptive disappearance of a sexual signal in a parasitized population of field crickets. Zuk, Marlene ; Rotenberry, John T. ; Tinghitella, Robin M., p. 521 \xe2\x80\x93 524\n13) The courtship-inhibiting pheromone is ignored by female-deprived gregarious desert locust males. Seidelmann, Karsten, p. 525 \xe2\x80\x93 527\n14) Connecting the dots: an invariant migration corridor links the Holocene to the present. Berger, Joel ; Cain, Steven L. ; Berger, Kim Murray, p. 528 \xe2\x80\x93 531\n15) Niche breadth and geographical range: ecological compensation for geographical rarity in rainforest frogs. Williams, Yvette M. ; Williams, Stephen E. ; Alford, Ross A. ; et al., p. 532 \xe2\x80\x93 535\n16) Sexual selection and its effect on the fixation of an asexual clone. Salath\xc3\xa9, Marcel, p. 536 \xe2\x80\x93 538\n17) Adaptive divergence of scaling relationships mediates the arms race between a weevil and its host plant. Toju, Hirokazu ; Sota, Teiji, p. 539 \xe2\x80\x93 542\n18) Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils. Ericson, Per G. P.; Anderson, Cajsa L. ; Britton, Tom ; et al., p. 543 \xe2\x80\x93 547\n19) On the origin of the Synodontis catfish species flock from Lake Tanganyika. Day, Julia J. ; Wilkinson, Mark, p. 548 \xe2\x80\x93 552\n20) Mate choice assays and mating propensity differences in natural yeast populations. Murphy, Helen A. ; Kuehne, Heidi A. ; Francis, Chantal A. ; Sniegowski, Paul D., p. 553 \xe2\x80\x93 556\n21) Metabolic costs of brain size evolution. Isler, Karin ; van Schaik, Carel P., p. 557 \xe2\x80\x93 560\n22) Correlated evolution between hearing sensitivity and social calls in bats. Bohn, Kirsten M. ; Moss, Cynthia F. ; Wilkinson, Gerald S., p. 561 \xe2\x80\x93 564\n23) Insects from the grazing food web favoured the evolutionary habitat shift to bright environments in araneoid spiders. Miyashita, Tadashi ; Shimazaki, Aya, p. 565 \xe2\x80\x93 568\n24) Consistent sex ratio bias of individual female dragon lizards, Uller, Tobias ; Mott, Beth ; Odierna, Gaetano ; Olsson, Mats, p. 569 \xe2\x80\x93 572\n25) Long-term maternal effect on offspring immune response in song sparrows Melospiza melodia. Reid, Jane M. ; Arcese, Peter ; Keller, Lukas F. ; Hasselquist, Dennis, p. 573 \xe2\x80\x93 576\n26) Nepotism and brood reliability in the suppression of worker reproduction in the eusocial Hymenoptera. Nonacs, Peter, p. 577 \xe2\x80\x93 579\n27) Gut reaction by heartless shrimps: experimental evidence for the role of the gut in generating circulation before cardiac ontogeny. Spicer, John I., p. 580 \xe2\x80\x93 582\n28) Extrafloral nectary phenotypic plasticity is damage- and resource-dependent in Vicia faba. Mondor, Edward B. ; Tremblay, Michelle N. ; Messing, Russell H., p. 583 \xe2\x80\x93 585\n29) Where do all the maternal effects go? Variation in offspring body size through ontogeny in the live-bearing fish <i>Poecilia parae</i>. Lindholm, Anna K.; Hunt, John ; Brooks, Robert, p. 586 \xe2\x80\x93 589\n30) Muscle fibre number varies with haemoglobin phenotype in Atlantic cod as predicted by the optimal fibre number hypothesis. Johnston, Ian A. ; Abercromby, Marguerite ; Andersen, \xc3\x83?ivind, p. 590 \xe2\x80\x93 592\n31) A novel obligate cultivation mutualism between damselfish and <i>Polysiphonia</i> algae. Hata, Hiroki ; Kato, Makoto, p. 593 \xe2\x80\x93 596\n32) Fathers in hot water: rising sea temperatures and a Northeastern Atlantic pipefish baby boom. Kirby, Richard R. ; Johns, David G. ; Lindley, John A., p. 597 \xe2\x80\x93 600\n33) Typing single polymorphic nucleotides in mitochondrial DNA as a way to access Middle Pleistocene DNA. Valdiosera, Cristina ; Garc\xc3\xada, Nuria ; Dal\xc3\xa9n, Love ; et al., p. 601 \xe2\x80\x93 603\n34) Contrasting patterns of sequence divergence and base composition between <i>Drosophila</i> introns and intergenic regions. Ometto, Lino ; De Lorenzo, David ; Stephan, Wolfgang, p. 604 \xe2\x80\x93 607\n35) Olfactory memory capacity of the cricket <i>Gryllus bimaculatus</i>. Matsumoto, Yukihisa ; Mizunami, Makoto, p. 608 \xe2\x80\x93 610\n36) Prey choice and cannibalistic behaviour in the theropod Coelophysis. Nesbitt, Sterling J. ; Turner, Alan H. ; Erickson, Gregory M. ; Norell, Mark A., p. 611 \xe2\x80\x93 614\n37) An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high-latitude deposits of Australia. Kear, Benjamin , P. ; Schroeder, Natalie I. ; Lee, Michael S.Y., p. 615 \xe2\x80\x93 619\n38) Endophytic fungus decreases plant virus infections in meadow ryegrass ( Lolium pratense). Lehtonen, P\xc3\xa4ivi T.; Helander, Marjo; Siddiqui, Shahid A.; et al., p. 620 \xe2\x80\x93 623\n39) Linking ecology, behaviour and conservation: does habitat saturation change the mating system of bearded vultures? Carrete, Martina ; Don\xc3\xa1zar, Jos\xc3\xa9 A. ; Margalida, Antoni ; Bertran, Joan, p. 624 \xe2\x80\x93 627\n40) Ocean climate prior to breeding affects the duration of the nestling period in the Atlantic puffin. Durant, Jo\xc3\xabl M. ; Anker-Nilssen, Tycho ; Stenseth, Nils Chr., p. 628 \xe2\x80\x93 631\n41) Selectivity of harvesting differs between local and foreign roe deer hunters: trophy stalkers have the first shot at the right place. Mysterud, Atle ; Tryjanowski, Piotr ; Panek, Marek, p. 632 \xe2\x80\x93 635\n42) Low intensity, mixed livestock grazing improves the breeding abundance of a common insectivorous passerine. Evans, Darren M. ; Redpath, Stephen M. ; Evans, Sharon A. ; et al., p. 636 \xe2\x80\x93 638\n43) Low worldwide genetic diversity in the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). Rus Hoelzel, A. ; Shivji, Mahmood S. ; Magnussen, Jennifer ; Francis, Malcolm P., p. 639 \xe2\x80\x93 642 \nThat\'s one issue of one journal, out of many. Now let\'s compare that to the output in the one and only ID journal (ISCID "PCID") over the last few years:\n
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