Tag: North America
Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand
We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy.
Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous
The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time.
Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg.
Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)
Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology.
Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates
Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time.