Credit where credit is due. Probably, unlike some of his more senior colleagues in the world of academic Darwin defenders, gents like Francisco Ayala, Scalan won't pretend to have read the book when he hasn't, or pretend there's nothing there to review...

The finding, relying on DNA as a kind of molecular clock, appears to resolve a longstanding scientific controversy over just how and when malaria arrived in South America. “Some people were arguing that it had been there for thousands of years,” said...

He argued for the view -- which he also regularly espouses on his blog -- that the preponderance of our genome is non-functional. This claim is advocated by many Darwinian thinkers (including Francis Collins, Ken Miller, Francisco Ayala, Darrel Falk,...