Albatrossity2
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| Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 15 2008,14:49) | | I'm in! I'll even start us off (afarensis pulls out a graphing calculator and accesses the random number function), okay the number is 94. Since I generated the first number and have a copy of the book I will not participate in this first round. Again, the number is 94 so document those errors! |
Well, I had to go in to the office to pick up some papers to grade (sigh), and got my copy of EE. The challenge to find the first error on page 94 of EE was too easy; there is an error in the first complete sentence on that page!
On page 93 we read | Quote | The second problem is where the moths were placed. Peppered moths in the wild normally find resting places high up in the canopy of the trees—not on the tree trunks where the experimenters placed them. The upshot is that the experimenters released peppered moths that were sleepy and disoriented, placing them on tree
(continued on p. 94) - trunks by hand, where they became unnaturally easy targets for predatory birds. Clearly, this does not simulate what takes place in the wild.(footnote 14) |
Footnote 14 refers to the appalling book by Judith Hooper, Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002).
So the first error is that first complete sentence - Michael Majerus, addressing all of the creationist criticisms of Kettlewell's work with peppered moths, demonstrated differential predation of black and white peppered moths in the wild, in their natural resting positions.
Incidentally, Majerus also discusses Hooper's book and the arrary of criticisms that have been leveled against it.
To be fair, Majerus' work was not known when EE was being written. I'm sure that Paul will pass this updated information along to his co-authors and remove this error from the second printing.
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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
- Pattiann Rogers
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