Category: Evolution
Natural Selection as “Piano Tuning”
“Organisms will change ever so slightly in order to stay the same and, thus, survive in their particular niche or environment.”
An Eye-Opening Discovery: The Remarkable Vision of Anomalocaris
Anomalocaris is one of the many extraordinary creatures that emerge during the Cambrian explosion (~530 million years ago), seemingly without clear precursors.
Francis Galton’s Novel: A Vision of Horrors to Come
Darwin’s cousin will never live down the dark side of his legacy.
A. L. Hughes’s New Non-Darwinian Mechanism of Adaption Was Discovered and Published in Detail by an ID Geneticist 25 Years Ago
As a geneticist, I have been “preaching” exactly this non-Darwinian kind of evolution and speciation since 1986.
A Modest Comeback for Lamarck, and a Reminder of the Edge of Evolution
Like the Darwinian mechanism, the Lamarckian one appears to work — insofar as it does — by knocking things out, not building them up.