Author

Charles Sullivan

Charles Sullivan has graduate degrees in philosophy and English, and is an adjunct faculty member in Portland Community College's writing department. He has published articles with Cameron M. Smith in Playboy, Skeptical Inquirer, and The Writer.

1 Book

The Top 10 Myths about Evolution —( Charles Sullivan, Cameron Smith )

1 Article

Five Bad Evolutionary Designs —( Charles Sullivan )

Have you ever seen those nature documentaries where the narrator describes how perfectly designed, say, the cheetah, the polar bear, or the chameleon is for its environment? Of course, calling an animal perfectly designed is just shorthand for saying that the slow processes of evolution have led to that animal's well-adapted features. Yet evolution hasn't always generated the best designs, or at least not the best from an engineering perspective. In fact, some features seem downright poorly designed. This should come as no surprise when we understand a little about how evolution works.

Published: 11/1/2007