Tag: phylogeny
Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet
A man was paddleboarding last month when he came across a mysterious creature three miles off the shoreline of California.
A Remarkably Candid Statement About an Unsolved Evolutionary Puzzle
According to current systematic theory, everyone reading this right now belongs to the taxonomic category Deuterostomia.
The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit
I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle.
Biologist Advocates Biology Without Species; What Could Go Wrong?
So what is real, according to Brent Mishler? Only phylogeny — the tree of evolutionary descent.
Whales Give More “Design of Life” Evidence, Defying Explanations Based on Natural Selection
Biologist Richard Sternberg explains how the whale-evolution sequence is more “artistic license” than demonstrable fact.