Tag: cladistics

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Baltic amber, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, cladistics, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Ludwig van Beethoven, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Cambridge, University of Oklahoma}

Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

13}

The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, ancestral species, Asian elephant, canids, chronospecies, cladistics, common descent, Darwinism, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, microevolution, phylogenetic systematics, Pleistocene, Pliocene, species-to-species transitions, stem group, technical literature, Willi Hennig, wolves}

Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?

_{Günter Bechly
March 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

6}

Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, biologists, cladistics, entomologists, entomology, Gerhard Mickoleit, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, morphology, naturalists, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetics, polymath, Protestantism, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, systematics, University of Tübingen, Willi Hennig}

Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

2}

He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, character, cladistics, cladogram, evolutionary biologists, homoplasy, Hox genes, parsimony, phylogeny, referee, University of Vienna}

The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit

_{Paul Nelson
February 6, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Baltic amber, cladistics, Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, Fossil Friday (series), London, Mexico, Natural History Museum, Piltdown fly, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, tree resin, Willi Hennig}

Fossil Friday: Fake Amber and the Piltdown Fly

_{Günter Bechly
November 25, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

6}

Such simple forgeries are commonly sold to tourists in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, and Eastern Asia. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
April 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, birds, cladistics, Darwinian theory, dinosaurs, Dollo’s Law, Eocene, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, genetic code, gradualism, Irreducible Complexity, M.-P. Schützenberger, macromutations, mutations, nucleotides, paleontology, phenotype, saltations, Science (journal), wings}

Ten Reasons Why Birds Are Not Living Dinosaurs

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
April 14, 2021

Evolution, Genetics

5}

Natural selection can explain “the survival of the fittest but not the arrival of the fittest.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 24, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Cambrian Period, cladistics, Darwinian evolution, Ediacaran biota, Evans et al. (2021), fossil record, phylogenetic systematics, Precambrian House of Cards Series, sea floor, Tribrachidium, Tribrachidium heraldicum, Trilobozoa}

The Enigmatic Tribrachidium and Trilobozoa

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2021

Evolution

3}

Trilobozoans are unique to the Ediacaran biota; they appeared suddenly 560 million-years-ago in the fossil record without any precursors. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 16, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, analysis, biogeography, Charles Darwin, cladistics, conservatives, Darwin-skeptics, Darwin's House of Cards, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, fossil record, friendship, Harper’s Magazine, Hebrew Bible, journalists, loyalty, materialism, National Review, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Richard Lenski, skeptics, The Weekly Standard, thought, Tom Bethell, Tom Wolfe, William F. Buckley Jr., writing}

Iconoclast: Farewell to Tom Bethell

_{David Klinghoffer
February 16, 2021

Evolution, Science Reporting

4}

I remember having an exchange with Tom about the meaning of his last name, which seems to correspond to the Biblical place name Beth El, meaning "House of God." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Zoology
Tagged
, __nedited, arthropods, circadian rhythms, cladistics, common descent, crustaceans, Current Biology, Devonian Period, evolutionists, frogs, George McGhee, homology, homoplasy, lampreys, lizards, Paleozoic, pseudogenes, Simon Conway Morris, sleep, Stephen Jay Gould, tetrapods, University of Tübingen, vertebrates, Willi Hennig}

Extinct Four-Eyed Monitor Lizard Busts Myth of a Congruent Nested Hierarchy

_{Günter Bechly
April 23, 2018

Evolution, Paleontology, Zoology

16}

Obviously, evolutionary “laws” are quite malleable and have to give way when they become too cumbersome. Read More ›

270 million Years Old Trilobite fossil, Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 29, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Paleontology
Tagged
, __nedited, artifact hypothesis, BioLogos, Cambrian Explosion, cladistics, Darwin's Doubt, Kimberella, methodological naturalism, Stephen C. Meyer, transitional forms}

On the Cambrian Explosion, Keith Miller’s BioLogos White Paper Falls Short

_{Casey Luskin
December 29, 2016

Evolution, Faith & Science, Paleontology

21}

The theistic evolutionary group BioLogos has compiled a mixed record in analyzing the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›