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Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.

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October 2026

  1. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  2. Polynesian navigation and Indigenous “ways of knowing”
  3. Friday: Hili dialogue
  4. Readers’ wildlife photos
  5. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  6. Is Jesus back?
  7. The Neutral Theory: a genuinely important supplement to evolution’s “Modern Synthesis”
  8. Readers’ wildlife photos
  9. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ AI
  10. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  11. Nathaniel Comfort’s misguided take on The Selfish Gene at 50
  12. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  13. The daily scam
  14. Colossal & Co. at it again, trying to create “War Dogs”
  15. Monday: Hili dialogue
  16. Another literary scam
  17. John McWhorter goes back to antiwoke
  18. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  19. Caturday felid trifecta: Cats playing music; couple travels the world to photograph every wild cat species; new book on cats as muses; and lagniappe
  20. Bill Maher on “The Moocher Nation”
  21. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  22. John McWhorter goes all in for land acknowledgments
  23. Friday: Hili dialogue
  24. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  25. A big haul at Costco
  26. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ spying
  27. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  28. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  29. Repost: Worst lines in popular songs
  30. Monday: Hili dialogue
  31. Fall at Botany Pond: The turtles soak up some sun
  32. The riots in Europe. . .
  33. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  34. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  35. Caturday felid trifecta: Cat breeds that can’t be rehomed; cat taste testers; Pasadena’s CatCon; and lagniappe
  36. Friday: Hili dialogue
  37. Readers’ wildlife video
  38. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  39. Readers’ wildlife photos
  40. The Russian genocide against Ukraine
  41. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  42. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ insults
  43. Readers’ wildlife photos
  44. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  45. Readers’ wildlife photos
  46. Another journal drinks the Kool-Aid
  47. Monday: Hili Dialogue
  48. Readers’ wildlife photos
  49. A royal scam, and one involving AI
  50. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  51. Readers’ wildlife photos
  52. Bill Maher on the uselessness of the Greeks (sororities and fraternities)
  53. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  54. Caturday felid trifecta: Cat tweets; American cats catching up to dogs; Tokyo’s cat festival; and lagniappe
  55. Bret Stephens on Mamdani
  56. Friday: Hili dialogue
  57. Readers’ wildlife photos
  58. Nobel Peace prize goes to Navi Pillay, promoter of the Israeli genocide blood libel
  59. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  60. Anne Carson nabs Nobel for literature
  61. Mamdani booed for his October 7 statement—by supporters of Palestine
  62. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  63. Two nab Chemistry Nobel for producing asymmetric molecules
  64. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ competition
  65. Readings and videos for October 7
  66. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  67. Three scientists nab Nobel for Physiology or Medicine for work on optogenetics, one physicist wins for work on neutrinos
  68. The 2026 Nobel Prize Contest
  69. Monday: Hili dialogue
  70. The man who predicted the October 7 attack
  71. Colossal Biosciences continues to tout its faux “dire wolves”
  72. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  73. Readers’ wildlife photos
  74. Bill Maher on the surveillance state and “Generation TMZ”
  75. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  76. Caturday felid trifecta: Guys who love cats; chonky cat contest; Sumatran tigers born; and lagniappe
  77. Friday: Hili dialogue
  78. Bill Maher on accidental bipartisanship
  79. Richard Dawkins on the 20th anniversary of The God Delusion
  80. Hili dialogue
  81. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: “A Glorious Enterprise” comes to a sad end

September 2026

  1. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  2. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ retrodiction
  3. The last duck post of 2026
  4. Tuesday: Hili dialogue (and a note on AI in the classroom)
  5. Readers’ wildlife photos
  6. Monday: Hili dialogue
  7. Is this the world’s best beer?
  8. Some English beers
  9. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  10. For the gazillionth time, New Atheism declared dead (by ID advocate Stephen Meyer!)
  11. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  12. Find the cat!
  13. Rob Henderson completely messes up when discussing free will
  14. Here’s the cat?
  15. Friday: Hili dialogue
  16. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ morality
  17. Pushback on the the movie “NAZA”
  18. Hili dialogue
  19. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ free speech
  20. The two-state delusion
  21. Eye surgery and a complication
  22. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  23. Fat Bear Week is here! First vote is today.
  24. Jerry’s visit to the eye doctor
  25. Monday: Hili dialogue
  26. More woo from the NYT
  27. Maarten Boudry on Jason Arday and academia
  28. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  29. Spot the frog!
  30. Gerald Posner: news coverage by the New York Times is unbalanced
  31. Here’s the frog!
  32. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  33. Bill Maher on the economic apocalypse
  34. Caturday felid trifecta: Adventure cats; ugly medieval cats and merchandise; Joanna Lumley’s t.v. series on cats; and lagniappe
  35. Friday: Hili dialogue
  36. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ violence
  37. New species of cat discovered!
  38. “Don’t Get Me Wrong”
  39. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  40. Natasha Hausdorff on Israel’s “illegal” settlements and “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians
  41. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  42. A new Jesus and Mo!
  43. Words and phrases I despise
  44. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  45. Monday: Hili dialogue
  46. The golden days of the ducklings: photos and videos
  47. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  48. Bill Maher schools the young and the anti-Israel Democrats
  49. Miliband vs. Hausdorff on England’s sanctioning of Israeli “settlers”
  50. How they’ve grown!
  51. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  52. Readers’ wildlife photos
  53. Caturday felid trifecta: NOVA documentary “Cat tales”; a VERY LOUD cat being groomed; Hamlet, the Algonquin Hotel cat; and lagniappe
  54. Friday: Hili dialogue
  55. Readers’ wildlife photos
  56. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ apophatism
  57. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  58. My take on Jason Arday and the journal Nature, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education
  59. The University of Chicago tops FIRE’s new free-speech rankings
  60. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  61. Readers’ wildlife photos
  62. Coyne’s Rules of Life
  63. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  64. What about Lindsay Clancy?
  65. Monday: Hili dialogue
  66. Spot the frogmouth!
  67. Miss Duck has left the pond
  68. Here’s the frogmouth!
  69. Sunday: Hili dialogue

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