Tag: Cambrian News
Another Paper with the Imprimatur of the National Academy of Sciences Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion with Verbiage
Let’s take a look at the three “strong and persistent evolutionary forces” that they say caused the Cambrian explosion.
Lizard Wizardry: Gecko Popcorn and Chameleon Crystals
Are "evolutionary novelties" in the lizard family derivable from a simpler chordate in the Cambrian?
Still No Basis for Stretched-Rubbery Theory of Body-Plan Origins: An Exchange with Vincent Fleury
Dr. Fleury of the French National Centre for Scientific Research has responded to us with a post of his own.
More on the Stretched-Rubber Theory of Body Plans
In dispelling the enigma of the Cambrian explosion, this research does not seem to hold out much promise.
To Explain the Origin of Animal Body Plans, Here’s What May Be the Most Inadequate Proposal Yet
Take a sheet of rubber and pull the sides till it buckles in the middle. Presto! A vertebrate!