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Svante Pääbo
Photo: Svante Pääbo, by Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins

These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Acquainting Darwin with the Fossil Record

Romjue’s Darwin explores what we’ve learned about the fossil record since Darwin’s time on Earth — and it’s not what he expects. Read More ›
Cicada
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous

Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
baby green sea turtle
Photo: Baby green sea turtle, by Tyler Karaszewski, via Flickr (cropped).

Sea Turtles Display Elegant Design Solutions; They’re Also Really Cute

Apart from their being adorable, what many may not realize is that their motion on the sand is also amazingly efficient. Read More ›
Centrosaurus
Photo: Skull of Centrosaurus, by Sainterx, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?

There have been a number of unexpected finds from dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully. Read More ›
Turtle_Solnhofen
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Turtles All the Way Down

Contrary to the gradualistic expectations of Darwin’s theory, the distinct body plan of turtles appeared abruptly in the Late Triassic. Read More ›
silverfish
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›
coelacanth
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›
Casey Luskin
Photo: Casey Luskin in South Africa.

Examining “Professor Dave’s” Absurd Attack on Casey Luskin

The attack on Luskin is the most ludicrous part of the non-professor’s video, with Farina claiming at one point that Luskin perpetrated “a criminal offense.” Read More ›

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