Category: Evolution
Hybrid Sharks: From the Annals of Overselling Evolution
“There, he moved!” “No, he didn’t, that was you pushing the cage!”
Parallel Host and Parasite Phylogenies: Do They Imply Common Ancestry?
Consider this diagram — or “tanglegram” — representing the parallel phylogenies yielded by pocket gophers and their lice parasites.
Alas, Precambrian Microfossils Are Not the Solution to Darwin’s Dilemma
“Ever since Darwin there has been a disturbing void, both paleontological and psychological, at the base of the Phanerozoic eon.”
How to Say “Merry Christmas!” to Evolution News & Views
From a reader in Kansas City, we received a hand-knitted argyle sweater and instructions that it was intended especially for our David Berlinski.
Darwin Apologists: “We’ve Got It All Figured Out.” Astronomer Martin Rees: “Not So Fast.”
“Consider an analogy — suppose you’d never seen chess being played, you could, by watching a few games, infer the rules…”