Tag: Cambrian News
Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion
The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex.
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.
No. 5 Story of 2023: Peer-Reviewed Paper Finds “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”
They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.”
Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion
Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution.
Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning
Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals.