Tag: biological novelty
Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers
Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes.
Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism
Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology.
Reader Seeks Intelligent Design in a Nutshell
Cutting to the heart of even a very big subject is possible and desirable and important. Here’s an attempt an answer.
Time to Put a Lid on Cichlid Evolution Propaganda
If cichlid evolution is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology, then Darwinism’s sphere of explanatory inference is too small to matter.