Author: Paul Nelson
Postcard from Florida: When Tortoises Joust
This fellow was peacefully grazing by himself, unlike his pugilistic cousins nearby.
A Good Example of Evolutionary Use of Extremely Small Probability Singularities
How can you be certain, for instance, that you, horned lizards, and brook trout share a common chordate ancestor?
A Remarkably Candid Statement About an Unsolved Evolutionary Puzzle
According to current systematic theory, everyone reading this right now belongs to the taxonomic category Deuterostomia.
Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman
I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause.
The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit
I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle.