Category: Paleontology | Page 26 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Khan Academy, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, punctuated equilibrium, Stephen Jay Gould}

Lukas Ruegger: Three Problems with Punctuated Equilibrium

_{David Klinghoffer
March 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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By the time of his death, Stephen Jay Gould had come full circle, in effect, returning to traditional Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecus, Chromosomal Fusion, common ancestry, creationism, Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic drift, hominids, Homo, human origins, intelligent design, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), natural selection, Niles Eldredge, pseudogenes, punctuated equilibrium, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Jay Gould}

Eugenie Scott Gets Intelligent Design Backwards

_{Casey Luskin
January 19, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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This punctuated, even saltational increase in hominid skull sizes over time continues to be recognized in the literature. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, fossil record, Ian Tattersall, National Academy of Sciences, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, punctuated equilibrium, Science Uprising, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer}

Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
January 5, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Chile, Darwinism, digits, evolution, fish, genes, genetic code, intelligent design, limbs, Long Story Short, mitosis, Neil Shubin, PNAS, Spain, tiktaalik, University of Chicago}

More Fishy Tales Afoot from Neil Shubin

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January 3, 2022

Anatomy, Evolution, Paleontology

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Tiktaalik discoverer Neil Shubin from the University of Chicago searches for genetic clues between fish fins and tetrapod toes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, chimpanzees, Darwin critics, Darwinists, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominins, homoplasy, human origins, humans, ID the Future, knuckle-walking, last common ancestor, Miocene apes, rewriting, Sahelanthropus, Science (journal)}

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Mark McMenamin, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, Princeton University Press, Science Uprising, Simon Conway Morris, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer}

Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

_{Casey Luskin
December 23, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, David Berlinski, evolution, foresight, fossil record, intelligent design, mammals, material processes, Pakicetus, Richard Sternberg, whale evolution, whales, wolf}

To Shave a Cow: Sternberg on Whale Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
December 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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That evolution, over a span of 11 million years or so, was once hailed as a “poster child” for the confirmation of Darwinian theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary change, fossil record, genetic diversity, Jurassic, morphology, National Geographic, Richard Sternberg, shrimp, supermarket}

Evolution and That Shrimp on Your Plate

_{David Klinghoffer
December 14, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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Explosions of new life forms followed by stasis are emphatically not what evolution expects to find, but it is what paleontologists do find. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionists, explosions, fossil record, fossils, Friedrich Nietzsche, Homo (genus), intelligent design, population genetics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science Uprising, waiting-time problem}

Luskin: The Dead Talk Back to Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
December 8, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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The “dreadful beasts, grinning knowingly,” have a message for evolutionists: “no further in this direction!” Read More ›

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Date
December 6, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Bryozoa, bryozoans, budding, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, climate change, evolution, fossil record, information, intelligent design, Nature (journal), Nature News and Views, Ordovician Period, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego, University of Alberta}

More Cambrian Woes for Evolution

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December 6, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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New fossils continue to put pressure on the evolutionary narrative of gradualism. Read More ›