Tag: fossil record
Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature
Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity.
Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery
Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago).
Fossil Friday: Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail
These fossils are often celebrated as missing links and a success story for Darwinism.
Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link
The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis
It looks a bit like a tadpole with body and tail, and this indeed points towards one of the great scientific controversies of the 20th century.