Tag: The Myth of Human Tails
Human Tails: Another Evolutionary Icon that Coyne, Giberson and Other Darwin Defenders Would Be Wise to Abandon
Charles Darwin was the first to articulate this notion, but it survives, a true vestige, among his modern advocates.
“Pseudotails” and “True Tails” Have Similar Causes, Suggesting Both Are Birth Defects, Not Vestigial Holdovers
Yet another evolutionary icon has fallen to the data.
How the Darwinian View of Human “Tails” Leads to Harmful Medical Practices
Darwin-defenders like Karl Giberson have used the rare phenomenon of babies born with supposed “tails” as evidence for common descent.
Are Human Tails Mere “Vestigial” or “Benign” Structures Born to “Otherwise Healthy” Babies?
Prominent medical researchers on the “human tail” now see it as “a disturbance in the development of the embryo” not “a regression in the evolutionary process.”
Do Human “Tails” Represent the Simple “Turning On” of Genes Retained from Our Ancestors?
Karl Giberson wants us to think that true tails are some kind of a regression to an earlier form.