Truth in Science

Truth in Science
AQA GCSE Biology Additions - Hodder & Stoughton PDF Print E-mail


AQA GCSE Biology Additions. Vic Pruden. Hodder and Stoughton. 2002
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This textbook is a supplement to AQA GCSE Science, providing the additional material needed for the separate science Biology GCSE. It contains only one reference to evolution.

Evidence for evolution

In a chapter on Locomotion, it is claimed that wings are believed to have been adapted from the front legs of vertebrates that did not fly (p.16). Diagrams show the similarities between the pentadactyl limbs of humans, birds, bats, orang-utans, horses, whales and moles, and the text claims the fact that this general pattern exists in so many different vertebrates suggests that they have all evolved from a common ancestor. For a different suggestion see: Homology in Vertebrate Limbs.
 

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...next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: "What kind of evidence is there for that?"

 

Richard Dawkins (2003), Oxford University.

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