Author: Michael Denton
Internal Constraints vs. External Pressures: The Revelations of Evo-Devo
Internal causal factors have played a far more prominent role in the actualization of evolutionary innovations than cumulative selection
The Evo-Devo Revolution: LEGOs or Transformers?
Pigs will never fly — not only because of functional reasons, but because of deep internal structural constraints in the way a pig is put together.
The Types: Why Shared Characteristics Are Bad News for Darwinism
There is something incongruous about the very notion of genuine immutable “taxon-defining novelties” if Darwinian evolution is true.
Nature’s Dis-Continuum: Why Structural Explanations Win Hands Down
There is no reason for believing the major Type-defining homologs, such as the feather, were achieved gradually via functional continuums.
Non-Adaptive Order: An Existential Challenge to Darwinian Evolution
If many of the taxa-defining homologs are non-adaptive, the whole Darwinian enterprise breaks down entirely.