Tag: common ancestry
Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder
Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.
Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks
Molecular clocks are a relatively simple concept.
A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions
Winston Ewert recently published a paper in BIO-Complexity suggesting that life is better explained by a dependency graph than by a phylogenetic tree.
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.
Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry
The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory.