Tag: evolution
Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover?
Simple, small, and worldwide in distribution, the placozoa don’t fit any clear evolutionary picture.
For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology
In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin’s principal failing in developing his theory.
Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design
Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive.
Cambrian-Aged Ediacaran Organism Reconfirms Explosiveness of the Cambrian Explosion
For the first time it has been discovered that an organism from the Precambrian Ediacaran fauna may have survived into the Cambrian period.
New Book Offers History as an Antidote to the Paralyzing “Science-Denier” Label
Whether the subject is evolution or climate change, the purpose of accusing someone of “science-denial” is to keep that person in line.