Tag: evolutionary icons

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), atheism, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chimps, Darwinian evolution, environments, evolutionary icons, Günter Bechly, humans, immaterial genome, Michael Levin, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic space, protein-coding DNA, Richard Sternberg, science education, science media, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, zookeepers, zoos}

Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

_{David Klinghoffer
May 23, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, convergent evolution, cynodonts, Early Jurassic, evolutionary icons, Fossil Friday (series), Gondwana, Great Britain, Jonathan Wells, mammals, reptiles, South America, University of Bristol}

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
November 1, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, evolutionary icons, Gizmodo, hominids, hominins, human origins, humans, intelligence, macaque monkeys, macaques, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, monkeys, primates, rocks, Science Advances, Thailand, The Hill, tools}

Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Macaque monkeys from Lobi Bay, Thailand, have been observed “unintentionally” producing stone tools. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cichlid fish, evolution, evolutionary icons, fatty acids, Freshwater, intelligent design, natural genetic engineering, phenotypic plasticity, scientific materialism, stickleback fish}

Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Marshall, critics, Evolution News, evolutionary icons, filmmaker, intelligent design, Jackson Wheat, Jeremy England, Jonathan Wells, Long Story Short, music, Nota Bene, PZ Myers, whales, YouTube videos, Zombie Science (book)}

Whale Song: Learning from Our Critics

_{David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2020

Biology, Evolution

4}

A substantive argument is a lovely thing to behold, to watch or to listen to, even if punctuated (in Myers's case) by the usual grumpy insults. Read More ›

Golden Retriever Looking Out Of Car Window

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Artificial Selection, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary icons, Jonathan Wells, natural selection, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society Open Science, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wolves}

No, Your Dog Is Not a Barking Exemplar of Macroevolution

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2017

Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences, Science

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They are yet another evolutionary icon that Jonathan Wells, perhaps in his next book, could handily leash and take for a walk. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
June 3, 2016

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __tedited, adaptation, Darwinism, evolutionary icons, fakery, Icons of Evolution, jumping genes, macroevolution, microevolution, natural selection, Origin of Species, peppered moths, textbooks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, transposable elements}

Peppered Moths, an Evolutionary Icon, Are Back

_{Jonathan Wells
June 3, 2016

Biology, Evolution

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Readers of Evolution News are probably familiar with -- perhaps even bored with -- the classic story of peppered moths. Read More ›