Tag: cladogram
Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber
Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet!
Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs
Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources.
The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit
I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle.
BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature
One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life.