Tag: University of Tübingen
Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike
An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions.
Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories).
Study: Hands of “Ardi” Indicate a Chimp-like Tree-Dweller and Knuckle-Walker
Initially, Ardi was widely called the “oldest human ancestor,” due to its supposed skeletal traits that indicated an early bipedal (upright walking) species.
Newly Published Analysis Refutes Claims that Sahelanthropus tchadensis Was Human Ancestor
What happened to the femur? Did the original discoverers hold on to the bones to stonewall an analysis with a conclusion they didn’t like?
Extinct Four-Eyed Monitor Lizard Busts Myth of a Congruent Nested Hierarchy
Obviously, evolutionary “laws” are quite malleable and have to give way when they become too cumbersome.