On the Origin of Dog Race by Means of Manual Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

"Nice head, pity the brain doesn't fit in" was the captive caption of a two-page article by Lucas Brouwers, science journalist for the Dutch top-notch newspaper NRC (7 January 2012, Weekend Science Annex). It describes the excessive failures of professional dog breeders to come up with healthy strains, "races", of dogs.

Darwin, DNA, the dodo and the digital depot

Sander Kooreman wrote a blog called Darwin, DNA, the dodo and the digital depot. In this article he lent some examples from evolutionary biology to make his points. This is the first in a series of examples I will blog about to show biology misconceptions.