Category: Paleontology
More Fishy Tales Afoot from Neil Shubin
Tiktaalik discoverer Neil Shubin from the University of Chicago searches for genetic clues between fish fins and tetrapod toes.
#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess
Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion.
Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?
For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery.
To Shave a Cow: Sternberg on Whale Evolution
That evolution, over a span of 11 million years or so, was once hailed as a “poster child” for the confirmation of Darwinian theory.
Evolution and That Shrimp on Your Plate
Explosions of new life forms followed by stasis are emphatically not what evolution expects to find, but it is what paleontologists do find.