Tag: Afrotheria

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, common descent, Darwinism, Desmostylia, dugongs, elephants, Embrithopoda, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Jamaica, mammals, Paleocene, PaleoDB, paleontology, Proboscidea, sea cows, sirenians, synapomorphies, Tethytheria, Washington State, whales}

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

_{Günter Bechly
January 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 13, 2023

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, __testing, Afrotheria, East Africa, Egypt, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, George Gaylord Simpson, hyraxes, Paleogene, phylogenetics, scrotum, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 13, 2023

Paleontology, Science

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Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, Darwinism, deforestation, elephant shrews, Eocene, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, K/Pg impact event, Late Paleocene, Madagascar, molecular data, Morocco, Namibia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida

_{Günter Bechly
January 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Should we draw any conclusions from such consistent empirical failures of a theory? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Afrotheria, Belgium, Egypt, elephant shrews, Eocene, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, living fossils, Madagascar, mammals, Namibia, Paleogene, Pleistocene}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 16, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, America, Antarctica, anteaters, Argentina, armadillos, clades, Darwinists, Early Eocene, megafauna, molecular clock, Natural History Museum of Vienna, New World, Patagonia, phylogenetic systematics, placental mammals, Pleistocene, primates, sloths, Tubulidentata, Xenarthra}

Fossil Friday: The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans

_{Günter Bechly
December 16, 2022

Paleontology, Science

20}

Should we dare to consider the possibility that something is wrong with the Darwinist assumptions? Heaven forbid! Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Afrotheria, anteaters, armadillos, biogeography, convergence, Darwinists, Fossil Friday (series), Laurasiatheria, mammals, paleontologists, sloths, Xenarthra, zoologists}

Fossil Friday: Eurotamandua — Anteater or Not Even Close?

_{Günter Bechly
October 14, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Darwinists have to appeal to the ad hoc hypothesis of convergent adaptation to similar lifestyles, which of course increases their problem. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Afrotheria, bats, BIO-Complexity, cladogram, common ancestry, convergent evolution, dependency graph, differential gene loss, dolphins, echolocation, evolutionary model, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, Laurasiatheria, Mammalia, molecular sequences, most recent common ancestor, Therapsids, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert}

BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

_{Brian Miller
July 19, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›