Category: Paleontology
Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform
Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review.
Fossil Friday: Update on Cambrian Bryozoans
The authors emphasize that “the origin of the bryozoans remains a mystery” but explicitly confirm the reality of the Cambrian Explosion.
Childhood in the Ice Age — What Was It Like?
Having reached a point now known as the “Sala dei Misteri,” they left signatures of their time there.
Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds
Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs.
No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong
Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.