My Falsehoods

• The Gambit of Falsehoods
• Falsehoods: “Living Fossils”
• Falsehoods: “The Great Chain of Being”
• Falsehoods “genes” evolve/”animals” evolve
• Nit Picking
• Falsehoods: Evolution can stop
• Falsehoods: Mutations are completely random
• Simplifying vs. Oversimplifying

Greg Laden’s Falsehoods

• The Falsehoods“False Pearls before Real Swine”
• Falsehood: A baby is not the biological offspring of its adoptive mother
• Falsehoods: Has evolution stopped for humans?
• Natural Selection is Survival Of the Fittest (A Falsehood)
• Falsehood: Nature maintains balance.
• Is it a Falsehood that Humans Evolve from Apes?
• The poor and the dark skinned have more babies than the rich and the light skinned
• Acting for the survival of the species (a falsehood)
• Culture Overrides Biology (Another falsehood)
• What is the Placebo Effect, and it it getting stronger?