Tag: genetic diversity

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Mathematics
Tagged
, calculations, chatbot, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, earth, Gemini, genetic diversity, Google, human origins, humans, logic, myths, natural selection, numbers}

Human Evolution by the Numbers: Chatbot Weighs In

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Mathematics

3}

The Darwinian story of human evolution from an ape-like creature is probably the most powerful modern secular myth. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, behavior, body size, Brown University, David N. Reznick, downstream, eggs, evolution, females, Finding Darwin's God, fish, genetic diversity, guppies, J.B.S. Haldane, Kenneth Miller, morphology, mutations, natural selection, physiology, population dynamics, predators, random mutation, upstream, variation}

Are Guppies Examples of Darwinian Macroevolution?

_{Emily Reeves
May 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

It was 1961, in the steep mountain streams of Trinidad where cascading waterfalls create barriers which predatory fish can’t overcome. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary change, fossil record, genetic diversity, grocery store, Jurassic, morphology, National Geographic, Richard Sternberg, shrimp, supermarket}

Evolution and That Shrimp on Your Plate

_{David Klinghoffer
December 14, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Explosions of new life forms followed by stasis are emphatically not what evolution expects to find, but it is what paleontologists do find. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 14, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, cichlid fish, engineered systems, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic diversity, information, Lake Malawi, Lake Victoria, mutation rate, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, phenotypic plasticity}

Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 14, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 30, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Ann Gauger, annus horribilis, Associated Press, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Bernard Wood, BIO-Complexity, Denisovans, Ethiopia, genetic diversity, gradualism, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Nature (journal), Ola Hössjer, paleoanthropology, population genetics, primates, punctuated equilibrium, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Magazine, Tim White}

A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
April 30, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

16}

Perhaps in ten years we’ll be having this conversation again — and perhaps at that time the Smithsonian Institution will give us all a more objective analysis of the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 9, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Africa, BIO-Complexity, bottleneck, coalescence, de novo creation, Denisovans, DNA, genetic diversity, Homo erectus, human origins, methodological naturalism, Neanderthals, Ola Hössjer, population genetics}

Reflections on Our Ancient Past

_{Ann Gauger
January 9, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

5}

I bring this up because some have claimed that I advocate a sole genetic progenitorship model for the first couple. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 25, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, 1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, BIO-Complexity, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chimpanzees, Dennis Venema, effective population size, evolutionary assumptions, first couple, genetic diversity, human origin, humans, mortality, Ola Hössjer, parsimony, Peaceful Science, population size, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Steve Schaffner}

More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?

_{Ann Gauger
October 25, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand. Read More ›

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Date
May 9, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Biomimetics, dysteleology, evolution, fish scales, genetic diversity, hormones, intelligent design, junk DNA, nature, plasma, Science Advances, Texas A&M University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Münster}

Clever Designs in Nature Worth Imitating

_{Science and Culture
May 9, 2019

Intelligent Design

7}

As the biomimetics movement accelerates, scientists keep providing more and more examples of intelligent design in organisms great and small. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, BIO-Complexity, chimpanzees, Colin Reeves, Dennis Venema, evolution, Francisco Ayala, genetic diversity, HLA-DRB1, Ola Hössjer, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Richard Buggs, Science and Human Origins, theistic evolution, University of Stockholm}

Adam and the Genome and “Predetermined Conclusions”

_{Science and Culture
February 9, 2018

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

13}

Buggs isn’t the only qualified biologist who has looked at arguments from MHC genes against Adam and Eve and found them lacking. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 25, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, bottleneck, chimpanzees, Christianity, Dennis Venema, effective population size, genetic diversity, Gil McVean, heterozygosity, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University, population size, Queen Mary University, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Richard Buggs}

Adam and the Genome and Human Genetic Diversity

_{Science and Culture
January 25, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

20}

Nobody in the ID community is capable of showing Dennis Venema to be wrong? Well, that’s a bit heavy on the attitude. Read More ›