Tag: fossil record
The Enigmatic Tribrachidium and Trilobozoa
Trilobozoans are unique to the Ediacaran biota; they appeared suddenly 560 million-years-ago in the fossil record without any precursors.
Our Friend, Tom Bethell
On February 12, 2021, Tom Bethell passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness.
Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time.
Iconoclast: Farewell to Tom Bethell
I remember having an exchange with Tom about the meaning of his last name, which seems to correspond to the Biblical place name Beth El, meaning “House of God.”
Flowering Plants and Common Descent
If this accurately reflects the argument in the primary research paper, it provides a beautiful example of common descent as axiomatically true.