When we're doing scientific research, we should definitely be avoiding any sources which aren't scientific by nature. This means we should avoid sources which haven't been peer reviewed by fellow authors of a similar field. With this, we avoid using literature of questionable quality.
Traits controlled by genes can only be acted upon natural selection because they have to helpful to the survival of that organism.
Dinosaur fossils had been known for centuries as "dragon bones" or the remains of giants, but it wasn't until Dean William Buckland of Oxford, England described the carnivorous "lizard" Megalosaurus<span> (in 1824) that they were formally studied as an extinct group of giant reptiles</span>