Category: Evolution
Knock-Knock. Who’s There? Carcharhinus tilstoni/C. limbatus Hybrid
An email correspondent of ours isn’t showing enough respect for hybrid black-tip sharks as a meaningful illustration of “evolution” in action.
Beyond Hitler/Darwin: Evolutionary Moral Anarchism
At the website Credo, our colleague Richard Weikart is writing a clear-eyed series of articles about what happens to ethics when it’s subjected to evolutionary thinking.
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.”