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Credit: All photos by Casey Luskin.

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Gaorong Li, via EurekAlert!, https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/1124311.

Science Paper Overstates Case for “Diverse Assemblage of Bilaterians” in the Ediacaran

I suspect the bilaterian nature of this “most numerous” fossil will be challenged as more studies come out. Read More ›
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Image Credit: ronnachaipark - Adobe Stock.

Here We Go Again: For Complex Life, Just Add Fertilizer

You may have all the ingredients you want, in the right quantities, but without a builder, nothing functionally complex will emerge. Read More ›
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Photo: Eokinorhynchus rarus, SEM, Dinghua Yang in Zhang et al. 2015, fair use (Source: http://english.nigpas.cas.cn/ns/RelatedNews/201511/t20151130_156623.html).

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›
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Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

No. 5 Story of 2023: Peer-Reviewed Paper Finds “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Andreas Drews, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: An earthworm, Swifts Creek, Victoria, by Fir0002/Flagstaffotos.

Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning

Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
Burgess Shale
Photo: Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster).[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

From Bad to Worse for Darwinism, as New Cambrian Explosion Finds Arrive

Less time and more complexity are compressed into an impossible challenge for evolution. Read More ›

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