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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, burial, Cambrian News, digestive system, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, feeding apparatus, foot, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella series, mantle, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, monoplacophorans, muscles, Ordovician Period, Parvancorina, proboscis, shells, teeth}

Reconstructing Kimberella — The Disputed Anatomy in Detail

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September 12, 2020

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Fossils often leave much room for very different interpretations of relatively poor evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, BioEssays, censorship, climate change, coincidences, Dave Speijer, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, falsification, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, rooster, Scientific American, tobacco, vaccinations}

Are Darwinists Backing Away from Falsification?

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September 11, 2020

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"If the rooster stands on the manure pile, as the folk saying goes, it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, comb jelly, Ediacaran biota, fossils, gonads, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, mantle, medusoid, molluscan radula, pharynx, proboscis, stylets, teeth, White Sea}

Kimberella — Four Phases of Interpretation

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September 11, 2020

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In the quite checkered history of the detailed reconstruction of Kimberella, we can distinguish four distinct successive phases. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, California, hype, intelligent design, James Tour, misinformation, nonlife, Oregon, Rice University, science media, scientists, Seattle, smoke, synthetic organic chemistry, wildfires}

James Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2020

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Blowing smoke is what science media and even scientists themselves do a great deal of the time when they talk about the origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bilaterian animals, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran organisms, fossil record, interpretation, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Metamorphosis, microbial mats, motility, Precambrian, sexual dimorphism, tissues, trace fossils}

Kimberella — Interpreting the Fossils

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September 10, 2020

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One of the few features that are uncontroversial is the body size: The fossils measure usually 1-5 cm in length. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson}

When Alfred Russel Wallace Spoke to Me

_{Michael Flannery
September 9, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind” to take in what Wallace had to tell me. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
September 8, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, animals, children, computers, consciousness, ears, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, human brain, human evolution, human origins, pain, scientists}

The “Hard” Problem of Consciousness

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September 8, 2020

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Above is a picture of three children in the 1950s. One of them is me, the other two are not. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang, Ediacaran Period, feeding traces, fossil record, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, Maotianshan Shales, motility, Precambrian strata, taphonomy, trace fossils}

Kimberella — Conflicting Evidence from Taphonomy

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September 7, 2020

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fossilization of Kimberella specimens was most likely based on rapid burial with sand during storm events. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2020

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, ecosystem, Ediacaran biota, feeding traces, fossil record, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series}

Conflicting Views about Kimberella’s Ecology

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September 6, 2020

Ecology, Evolution

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Based on the same fossil evidence, there is obviously much room for speculation and quite different opinions. Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, beetles, butterflies, Charles Darwin, evolution, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Lepidoptera, Michael Flannery, Robert Darwin, Robert McCormick, summer, The World of Life}

For Labor Day Weekend: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

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September 5, 2020

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Take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Read More ›