Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.