Tag: population genetics
Lee Spetner Took Aim at Natural Selection and Population Genetics
Spetner, a PhD from MIT, discusses natural selection, what it can and cannot do.
Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo
“On arriving at Caltech in 1971, Eric Davidson chose the purple sea urchin as his experimental model system.”
Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang
The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.”
Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations
As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification.
Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism
The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events.