Tag: phylogeny
Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light?
The media are generous with claims that new findings “shed light” on evolution.
Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah
If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center.
This Is Science — Dog Study Confirms What Everyone Already Knew
In contrast with apes, it’s a tougher sell to say that dogs share an ability to communicate with us because of being close evolutionary cousins.
Adam and the Genome and “Nonfunctional” Pseudogenes
Venema cites the vitellogenin pseudogene as supposedly demonstrating common ancestry between humans and birds, such as chickens.
Embracing Uncertainty: Evolution’s Latest Dodge
Faced with conflicting genetic evidence, Darwinians reach for a new “uncertainty principle” borrowed from physics.