Tag: phylogenetics
Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge
What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity.
Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”
On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design.
Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous
Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity.
Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin
These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy.
Lukas Ruegger: Homology and Phylogenetics Topple Darwin’s Tree
Evolutionists have all the evidence they need in genes and morphology to draw the one true tree of life. Or do they?