Are Darwin's finches “a particularly compelling example of speciation” as well as “evolution in action”? In a series of posts at Evolution News & Science Today, geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig offers some thoughts on the question of whether macroevolution is happening on the Galápagos Islands.

As biochemist Michael Behe explains in the Introduction to his new book, A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics, the public is being prepared very slowly for the demise of Darwinian evolutionary theory. It wasn’t planned that way, but it is how things are playing out.

Independent journalism costs money, and we don’t have deep pockets. We don’t hide our content behind a paywall because we want to influence as many people as possible. As we are finding out in the rest of society, free speech doesn’t mean much if there is no platform where dissenting ideas can be heard.

The research team believes the nanobodies can be manufactured in large quantities, rapidly distributed globally, and administered by inhalers, getting them right where they are needed most: in the respiratory tract and the lungs. The nanobodies appear to have a long shelf life, are inexpensive and safe. What’s not to like about Wally’s gift to the world?

Animals of all phyla, many of them small and hardly noticeable, continue to astound researchers who study them. It’s time to look at more animal champions that show design with Olympic flair.