Tag: Continuing Series
Are Human Tails Mere “Vestigial” or “Benign” Structures Born to “Otherwise Healthy” Babies?
Prominent medical researchers on the “human tail” now see it as “a disturbance in the development of the embryo” not “a regression in the evolutionary process.”
Postscript on "Smart Machines"
It’s interesting to think about how long a delusion promulgated by Stephen Hawking has been a subject of contemplation.
Do Human “Tails” Represent the Simple “Turning On” of Genes Retained from Our Ancestors?
Karl Giberson wants us to think that true tails are some kind of a regression to an earlier form.
Are Humans Ever Born with “Perfectly Formed” Tails?
In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin cited the tailbone (coccyx) as a supposed vestigial feature.
Another Icon of Evolution: The Darwinian Myth of Human “Tails”
The evolutionary notion of human “tails” is not only mistaken. It is also medically harmful.
