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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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November 2026

  1. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  2. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n the War on Christmas
  3. Friday: Hili dialogue
  4. Scam of the day
  5. Initiatives limiting women’s sports to biological women pass in all four states where they were on the ballot (two blue, one purple, and one red)
  6. Thusday: Hili dialogue
  7. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Thanksgiving
  8. In memoriam: Hili
  9. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  10. Democrats crush GOP, take both houses of Congress and disputed governorships
  11. Bill Maher on “Halloween safetyism”
  12. Bret Stephens on El-Sayed
  13. Andrzej’s notice of Hili’s death
  14. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  15. What’s a Democrat to do?
  16. Monday: Hili dialogue
  17. Movie: “Paging Hezbollah”
  18. Readers’ wildlife photos
  19. Sunday: Hili dialogue

October 2026

  1. Caturday felid trifecta: Man adopts kitten found at O’Hare airport; a jump-scaring Sphynx cat; a scientific study of cats, toxoplasmosis, and happiness
  2. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  3. Polynesian navigation and Indigenous “ways of knowing”
  4. Friday: Hili dialogue
  5. Readers’ wildlife photos
  6. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  7. Is Jesus back?
  8. The Neutral Theory: a genuinely important supplement to evolution’s “Modern Synthesis”
  9. Readers’ wildlife photos
  10. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ AI
  11. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  12. Nathaniel Comfort’s misguided take on The Selfish Gene at 50
  13. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  14. The daily scam
  15. Colossal & Co. at it again, trying to create “War Dogs”
  16. Monday: Hili dialogue
  17. Another literary scam
  18. John McWhorter goes back to antiwoke
  19. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  20. Caturday felid trifecta: Cats playing music; couple travels the world to photograph every wild cat species; new book on cats as muses; and lagniappe
  21. Bill Maher on “The Moocher Nation”
  22. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  23. John McWhorter goes all in for land acknowledgments
  24. Friday: Hili dialogue
  25. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  26. A big haul at Costco
  27. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ spying
  28. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  29. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  30. Repost: Worst lines in popular songs
  31. Monday: Hili dialogue
  32. Fall at Botany Pond: The turtles soak up some sun
  33. The riots in Europe. . .
  34. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  35. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  36. Caturday felid trifecta: Cat breeds that can’t be rehomed; cat taste testers; Pasadena’s CatCon; and lagniappe
  37. Friday: Hili dialogue
  38. Readers’ wildlife video
  39. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  40. Readers’ wildlife photos
  41. The Russian genocide against Ukraine
  42. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  43. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ insults
  44. Readers’ wildlife photos
  45. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  46. Readers’ wildlife photos
  47. Another journal drinks the Kool-Aid
  48. Monday: Hili Dialogue
  49. Readers’ wildlife photos
  50. A royal scam, and one involving AI
  51. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  52. Readers’ wildlife photos
  53. Bill Maher on the uselessness of the Greeks (sororities and fraternities)
  54. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  55. Caturday felid trifecta: Cat tweets; American cats catching up to dogs; Tokyo’s cat festival; and lagniappe
  56. Bret Stephens on Mamdani
  57. Friday: Hili dialogue
  58. Readers’ wildlife photos
  59. Nobel Peace prize goes to Navi Pillay, promoter of the Israeli genocide blood libel
  60. Thursday: Hili dialogue
  61. Anne Carson nabs Nobel for literature
  62. Mamdani booed for his October 7 statement—by supporters of Palestine
  63. Wednesday: Hili dialogue
  64. Two nab Chemistry Nobel for producing asymmetric molecules
  65. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ competition
  66. Readings and videos for October 7
  67. Tuesday: Hili dialogue
  68. Three scientists nab Nobel for Physiology or Medicine for work on optogenetics, one physicist wins for work on neutrinos
  69. The 2026 Nobel Prize Contest
  70. Monday: Hili dialogue
  71. The man who predicted the October 7 attack
  72. Colossal Biosciences continues to tout its faux “dire wolves”
  73. Sunday: Hili dialogue
  74. Readers’ wildlife photos
  75. Bill Maher on the surveillance state and “Generation TMZ”
  76. Saturday: Hili dialogue
  77. Caturday felid trifecta: Guys who love cats; chonky cat contest; Sumatran tigers born; and lagniappe
  78. Friday: Hili dialogue
  79. Bill Maher on accidental bipartisanship
  80. Richard Dawkins on the 20th anniversary of The God Delusion
  81. Hili dialogue
  82. 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”

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