Category: Evolution
Yet Again, Answering Paleontologist Donald Prothero on the Duration of the Cambrian Explosion; Plus Bonus "Taradiddle" Alert
I just checked Prothero’s review of Darwin’s Doubt and noticed that he tacked on an undated Postscript. This guy takes the cake.
It’s Tough to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future
As I noted here at ENV on Monday, a recent paper confirms a key inference I made in 2007 in The Edge of Evolution.
The "Flat Animal": Is It a Cambrian Ancestor?
Phylum Placozoa contains one member, but it has a body plan, six cell types, and a complex genomic toolkit.
Today at 1 PM Pacific, It’s Stephen Meyer Versus Michael Shermer on the Medved Show
Dr. Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, under whose auspices he published an over-the-top review of Dr. Meyer’s book, Darwin’s Doubt.
A Key Inference of The Edge of Evolution Has Now Been Experimentally Confirmed
Darwinian theory proposes that the astoundingly intricate machinery of the cell developed step by tiny step, by natural selection acting on random mutation.