Tag: National Geographic
Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think
Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences.
Evolution and That Shrimp on Your Plate
Explosions of new life forms followed by stasis are emphatically not what evolution expects to find, but it is what paleontologists do find.
As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man is a historical curiosity. Haeckel continues to resound in our minds today.
Copernican Revolution Promoted Man’s Place in the Cosmos
In Copernicus’ day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected.
Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal?
I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion.