Tag: vertebrates
Fossil Friday: Chronospecies, a Sinking Ship
The concept of chronospecies in paleontology was introduced by George (1956) for the naming of successive species in a single evolving lineage.
Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds
Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs.
The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering
It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system.
Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking
Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.”
Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design
The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism.