Tag: Icons of Evolution
Do Human Embryos Have Gills?
Jonathan Wells provide quotes from leading embryologists discussing how pharyngeal folds in humans only have an “illusory” similarity to fish gills.
Galápagos Finches and a Surprising Deletion
How could the authors suddenly do this? Some of the following points may be considered.
As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man is a historical curiosity. Haeckel continues to resound in our minds today.
Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons
From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth.
Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”
Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities.