The Panda's Thumb is a weblog on the creation-evolution controversy from a mainstream scientific perspective,  It is written by multiple contributors, including which professor emeritus of Mathematics and statistical mechanics at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California?
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The Panda's Thumb (blog) The Panda's Thumb is a weblog on the creation-evolution controversy from a mainstream scientific perspective. In 2006, "Nature" listed it as one of the top five science blogs. It is written by multiple contributors, including Wesley R. Elsberry, Paul R. Gross, Nick Matzke, PZ Myers and Mark Perakh, many of whom also have complementary weblogs at ScienceBlogs. The blog takes its name from The Panda's Thumb, the pub of the virtual University of Ediacara, which is named after the by Stephen Jay Gould, which in turn takes its title from the essay "The Panda's Peculiar Thumb", which discusses the Panda's sesamoid bone, an example of convergent evolution.
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Mark Perakh Mark Perakh (Russian: Марк Пэрах ; "perach" (פֶּ֫רַח) is the Hebrew word for "flower"; born "Mark Yakovlevich Popereka" in 1924, Kiev, Ukraine, died 7 May 2013 in Escondido, California), was a professor emeritus of Mathematics and statistical mechanics at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California.
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Robert C. Brown Robert C. Brown is an American engineer currently the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University.
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Dean H. Kenyon Dean H. Kenyon (born c. 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University, a young Earth creationist, and one of the instigators of the intelligent design movement. He is the author of "Biochemical Predestination".
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Cutler J. Cleveland Cutler J. Cleveland (born January 21, 1956) is an author, consultant, academic, and business executive. His research primarily involves natural resources, energy use, and their related economies. Dr. Cleveland is the editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedia of Energy" and winner of an American Library Association award. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Digital Universe "Encyclopedia of Earth".
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Jessica Utts Jessica Utts (born 1952) is a parapsychologist and statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is known for her textbooks on statistics and her investigation into remote viewing.
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Edward L. Wilson Edward L. Wilson (born September 5, 1931 in Ferndale, California) is an American civil engineer and academic who is known for his contributions to the development of finite element method. He was the T.Y. and Margaret Lin Professor in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the Professor Emeritus at the civil and environmental engineering, UC Berkeley. Wilson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a recipient of the John von Neumann Award.
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Satyan Devadoss Satyan L. Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones chair of applied mathematics at the University of San Diego. His research concerns topology and geometry, with inspiration coming from theoretical physics, phylogenetics, and scientific visualization.
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Peter J. Hammond (economist) Peter Jackson Hammond (born 9 May 1945), is the Marie Curie Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Warwick and an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has made numerous significant contributions to the advancement of Economic Theory.
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Richard Carson Richard Taylor Carson (born February 24, 1955, Jackson, Mississippi) is a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He obtained a B.A. degree from Mississippi State University in 1977, an M.A. in international affairs from George Washington University in 1979, and an M.A. in statistics and a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. He is the author or editor of eight books and over a hundred journal articles, and he is the most cited environmental economist in the world, with over 4000 citations to his works.
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Harris Lewin Harris Lewin, an American biologist, is a professor of evolution and ecology and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair at the University of California, Davis. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011, Lewin won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his research into cattle genomics.
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Steffen Lauritzen Steffen Lauritzen FRS (born 22 April 1947) is former Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and currently Professor of Statistics at the University of Copenhagen. He is a leading proponent of mathematical statistics and graphical models.
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D. Raghavarao Damaraju Raghavarao (1938–2013) was an Indian-born statistician, formerly the Laura H. Carnell professor of statistics and chair of the department of statistics at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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Stephen L. Brusatte Stephen Louis Brusatte (born April 24, 1984) is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, who specializes in the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs. He was educated at the University of Chicago for BS degree, at the University of Bristol for MSc on a Marshall Scholarship, and finally at the Columbia University for MPhil and PhD. He is a Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaentology at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to his scientific papers and technical monographs, his popular book "Dinosaurs" (2008) and the textbook "Dinosaur Paleobiology" (2012) earned him a wide acclaim, and he became the resident palaeontologist and scientific consultant for the BBC Earth and 20th Century Fox's 2013 film "Walking With Dinosaurs", which is followed by his popular book "Walking with Dinosaurs Encyclopedia".
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Stephen Stigler Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. He has authored several books on the history of statistics.
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Bruce Lipton Bruce Harold Lipton (born October 21, 1944 at Mount Kisco, New York), is an American developmental biologist best known for discovering that genes and DNA can be manipulated by a person's beliefs. He is the author of the bestselling book, "The Biology of Belief", and is a former researcher at Stanford University’s School of Medicine.
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Lyman Page Lyman Alexander Page, Jr. (born September 24, 1957) is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Physics at Princeton University. He is an expert in observational cosmology and one of the original co-investigators for the WMAP probe that made precise observations of the cosmic background radiation, an electromagnetic echo of the Universe's big bang phase.
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Andreas Wagner Andreas Wagner (born 26 January 1967) is an Austrian/US evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He is known for his work on the role of robustness and innovation in biological evolution. Wagner is professor and chairman at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zürich.
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Tyler Cowen Tyler Cowen ( ; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, who is an economics professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog, "Marginal Revolution", together with co-author Alex Tabarrok. Cowen and Tabarrok also maintain the website "Marginal Revolution University", a venture in online education.
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Jason Rosenhouse Jason Rosenhouse is an American author and professor of mathematics at James Madison University, where he was originally appointed an assistant professor in 2003. He became a full professor in 2014. His research focuses on algebraic graph theory, as well as analytic number theory. He currently runs the blog Evolution Blog at National Geographic's ScienceBlogs, where he frequently criticizes creationism, has contributed to the pro-evolution blog "The Panda's Thumb", and has also contributed to the Huffington Post about topics such as the Higgs boson, in addition to creationism.
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Mark H. Shapiro Mark H. Shapiro (born 1940 in Boston, MA) is a professor, emeritus of physics at California State University, Fullerton. Shapiro holds an A.B. degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley; and, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966.
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Thomas Landauer Dr. Thomas K. Landauer (April 25, 1932 – March 26, 2014) was a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology of the University of Colorado. He received his doctorate in 1960 from Harvard University, and also held academic appointments at Harvard, Dartmouth College, Stanford University and Princeton University. During his 25 year tenure as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and its successors, where he was the manager of an information science and human-computer interaction research group, he was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis. His publications include: