Tag: coordinated mutations
Similarities Between Vertebrate Limbs Are Best Explained Not by Common Ancestry but by Design
The challenge is particularly daunting in the case of whales. The flipper differs in almost every respect from that of its proposed terrestrial ancestor.
Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang
The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.”
Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations
As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification.
From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model
Ewert’s model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses.
Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance
The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process.