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Sphaerechinus granularis
Photo: Sphaerechinus granularis, a sea urchin, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Remarkably Candid Statement About an Unsolved Evolutionary Puzzle

According to current systematic theory, everyone reading this right now belongs to the taxonomic category Deuterostomia. Read More ›
Carl Linnaeus
Image: Carl Linnaeus, by Alexander Roslin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Read More ›
Dawkins expelled
Photo credit: Richard Dawkins, by Magnus Norden (151212035) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›
Darwin's finch
Photo: Darwin's finch, by Victor Gleim, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

On the “Sisyphean Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”

Scientific data are followed by the myth: “Finch beak morphology observed on the Galápagos Islands was used by Darwin to formulate his theory of evolution.” Read More ›

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