Tag: New World monkeys
Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?
More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job?
Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?
Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling.
Fossil Follies from Around the Science Literature
Evolutionary anthropologists will have to drastically revise the timeline of the first human arrivals in North America.
Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry
The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory.