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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 19, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __cedited, Australopithecus, Bernard Wood, Darwinism, Denisovans, fossil record, Homo (genus), Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, John Hawks, Karl Popper, Nature (journal), Philippines, Uncommon Descent, Wall Street Journal}

New Fossil Human Species Thwarts Core Darwinian Predictions

_{Günter Bechly
April 19, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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I can hardly resist the temptation to say “I told you so,” or to jokingly remark, “Oops, they did it again.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __cedited, Australian National University, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, fossilization, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, junk science, Kimberella, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Science (journal), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

“Ice Cube” Study of Ediacaran Fossils Is Junk Science

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2019

Evolution

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The authors discuss the mode of preservation of Ediacaran fossils, and they document taphonomical laboratory experiments. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __cedited, burial, Chad, Darwinian paradigm, femur, fossils, gorilla, hominid, human origins, Israel, John Hawks, mandible, Miocene, Misliya cave, paleoanthropology, Sahara Desert, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Stony Brook University}

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Dickinsonia Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __cedited, China, Darwinian theory, East Africa, East Asia, Ethiopia, Europeans, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human origins, India, Israel, Middle Palaeolithic, Middle Pleistocene, Misliya cave, modern humans, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, New Scientist, Racism, rewriting}

Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia

_{Günter Bechly
November 28, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution

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So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 12, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, annelids, arthropods, bird feathers, birds, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cancer theory, causation, Charles Marshall, chordates, clades, compound eyes, correlation, Günter Bechly, insects, mammals, mollusks, Neo-Darwinism, oxygen theory, Richard Dawkins, slime theory, Stephen Meyer, tetrapods, The Greatest Show on Earth, theistic evolution, University of Bristol}

Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans

_{Günter Bechly
September 12, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Atlantic Ocean, biogeography, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, Donald Prothero, George Gaylord Simpson, Gondwana, Madagascar, molecular clock, New World monkeys, New Zealand, rafting, South America}

Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry

_{Günter Bechly
June 27, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 29, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Anomalocaris, artifact hypothesis, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, David Klinghoffer, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Graham Budd, Hallucigenia, Kimberella, Nick Matzke, Oxford University, paleontology, phyla, PZ Myers, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer, trilobites}

Alleged Refutation of the Cambrian Explosion Confirms Abruptness, Vindicates Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
May 29, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The top-down pattern of appearance of animal phyla during the Cambrian explosion represents major conflicting evidence for Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 27, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Baltic amber, BIO-Complexity, biologic institute, Chrismooreia michaelbehei, dragonfly, England, fossils, intelligent design, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Munich, Neo-Darwinism, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines (film), The Edge of Evolution}

New Species of Fossil Dragonfly Named for ID Proponent Michael Behe

_{Günter Bechly
April 27, 2018

Intelligent Design

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The paradigm of cladistic classification based on assumed common ancestry should be reconsidered in favor of a traditional phenetic classification based on maximum similarity. Read More ›