Saturday, August 12, 2006

Attitudes to evolution in different countries

There is a very interesting discussion:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/put_the_blame_where_it_belongs.php
on this report:
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060810_evo_rank.html
See http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2827/content.htm
for a link to the original article.
A couple of correspondents tried to see the correlation to tax rates and murder rates. Unfortunately, the list has only 34 counntries. The two countries that I am most familiar with, Australia and India, are not on the list. The survey is confined to some western countries. A follow up post:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/africa_our_past_perhaps_our_fu.php#c192201
Pharyngula has a list of books on evolution here:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/02/an_updated_book_list_for_evolu.php

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