Category: Evolution
Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories).
Myth-Making and Malthus
After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy.
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How does information theory challenge Darwinian evolution? And how can the methods of probability be used to assess key evolutionary claims?
The Legacy of Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus even touched on the theory of natural selection when he concluded that the strongest and most active animals would propagate the species.
Darwin’s John the Baptist
Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day.