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Our science has been in the news lately thanks to a new propoganda film called Expelled. The film stars Ben Stein, who is famous in the United States as a novelty actor/economist/peddler-of-eye-drops. Stein may know something about economics, but certainly not about biology. I have the reverse problem, but thankfully I haven't embarrassed myself by making a movie about economics. Learn more about how this film has distorting the truth by clicking the link Expelled.

The latest anole phylogeny (April 16, 2008) based on mitochondrial DNA. Asterisks indicate sampling for our nuclear DNA phylogeny. Labels on nodes indicate posterior probability values: black = 1.0, gray <1.0, >0.7, white <0.7. Colored tips indicate region of origin: blue=Caribbean, orange=mainland.