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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 23, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecines, bones, Darwinian, evolutionists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Homo habilis, human origins, humans, Lucy, missing links, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropologists, stone tools, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

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June 23, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, cheetahs, China, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francisco Ayala, fraud, junk science, New World, Pleistocene, PNAS, Russia, Science (journal), skull}

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

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June 16, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, Fossil Friday (series), fraud, Himalayas, India, microfossils, Piltdown Man}

Fossil Friday: The Gupta Scandal

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June 9, 2023

Archaeology, Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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The greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century is not so well known outside of professional paleontologist circles. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Austria, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gabon, Metazoa, multicellular organisms, paleontology, rocks, taxonomy, University of Poitiers}

Fossil Friday: How an Austrian Scientist Concocted a New Domain of Life called Gabonionta

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June 2, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Is there any other evidence that this sensational discovery was nothing but hype? Sure there is. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, amniotes, biological novelty, birds, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francis Collins, Germany, homology, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, ontogeny, paleontology, scales, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, The Language of Science and Faith, theropod, theropod dinosaurs}

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

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May 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic code, intelligent design, legs, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, search engines, Simon Conway Morris, teleology, tetrapods, turtles, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

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May 19, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Paleontology

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Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), history of life, nutrients, oxygen, paleobiology, paleontology, revolutions, saltations, Scotland, sharks, swimming, textbooks, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Devonian Nekton Revolution

_{Günter Bechly
May 12, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, Darwinian evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Illinois, missing links, mollusk, Nature (journal), vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

_{Günter Bechly
May 5, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, biologists, cladistics, entomologists, entomology, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, morphology, naturalists, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetics, Protestantism, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, systematics, University of Tübingen, Willi Hennig}

Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, ecological niches, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genes, genetic changes, just-so stories, Late Cretaceous, marine reptiles, mutations, North America, population genetics, sharks, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
April 28, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Paleontology

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The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›