Tag: molecular clock
Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere
“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from?
Fossil Friday: The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans
Should we dare to consider the possibility that something is wrong with the Darwinist assumptions? Heaven forbid!
Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma
To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists.
Fact Check: Hawaiian Silverswords Fail the Species Pair Challenge
Even though the differences appear superficially striking, they do not involve any novel body plans (i.e., no new proteins, new tissues, or new organs).
Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?
If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’”