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Dickinsonia costata
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Photo at top: Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran of Australia, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Dickinsonia Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›
Dickinsonia costata
junk science
Photo at top: Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran of Australia, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›
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Still More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution

Trilobites look up silently from their Burgess Shale rock slabs, with sad eyes, asking, “Where did I come from?” Read More ›
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Cambrian-Aged Ediacaran Organism Reconfirms Explosiveness of the Cambrian Explosion

For the first time it has been discovered that an organism from the Precambrian Ediacaran fauna may have survived into the Cambrian period. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: Inexplicable Species and the Theory of Evolution

Man has been searching for fossils, or stumbling upon them, for millennia. Read More ›
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Photo: Fuxianhuia protensa, by Grahbudd at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Meet the Fuxianhuiids: Exploding Cambrian Arthropods

True arthropods are among the most sophisticated animals that appeared without ancestors in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Photo: Louisiana State Capitol, by joevare, via Flickr.

Listen: Wade Warren on 10th Anniversary of LSEA

The LSEA gave teachers freedom to teach about both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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<p>Photo: Walcott Quary, Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.</p>

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›

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