NRW-Stiftung Type post Author Casey Luskin Date May 22, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Origins and AnthropologyPaleontology Tagged , anthropology, Aosis, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, autosomes, body plan, body size, bottleneck, brain size, cladogenesis, faces, fossil record, Grok, hominids, Homo, Homo erectus, Homo ergaster, Homo sapiens, human origins, John Hawks, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mtDNA, nuchal areas, nuclear DNA, paleoanthropology, population, population size, Religions (journal), Science and Faith in Dialogue, sex chromosomes, skeleton, speciation, Stephen Barr, University of Wisconsin–Madison Not Out of Context: Comments on Hawks et al. (2000) Casey Luskin May 22, 2026 Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology 14 The lead author is John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has a popular blog on paleoanthropology. Read More ›
Spiraliaclade Type post Date January 27, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionZoology Tagged , Ana Silva, bioRxiv, cell cleavage, chaetae, clades, cladogenesis, common ancestor, Current Biology, deuterostomes, embryologists, evolution, larval types, Max Telford, metazoans, paleontology, phyla, pre-publication MS, segmentation, shells, spiral cleavage, spiral pattern, Spiralia, superclade, synapomorphies, taxonomic category, textbooks, University College London, Waldemar Schleip, zoology Giving Up on the Branching Order of Spiralia: More Findings from Max Telford’s Group Science & Culture January 27, 2026 Evolution, Zoology 3 The open agnosticism in this new MS is a short step away from throwing in the towel entirely, at an even more radical level. Read More ›
