Tag: Georges Cuvier

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University}

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

_{Michael Flannery
July 9, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, animal kingdom, BBC Wildlife, beak, bill, biofluorescence, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, ENCODE project, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionary biologists, gene expression, Georges Cuvier, German, human genome, intelligent design, John C. Sanford, lactation, mankind, Neo-Darwinism, New York Times, organs, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus, prehensile tail, sensory perception, sex chromosomes, spurs, stomach, tail, Tomoko Ohta, toxins, UV light, venom}

The Evolutionary Mystery of the Platypus

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 1, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

5}

The bill of the platypus is “the most remarkable organ for sensory perception found in the animal kingdom.” Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, Charles Darwin, corals, Ernst Mayr, evolution, fossil record, genera, Georges Cuvier, ghost lineages, hippos, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Martin Pickford, National Geographic, natural selection, species, stasis, trilobites}

Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
March 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

3}

The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, argument from analogy, Carl Sagan, category error, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Copernican principle, evolution, Frank Drake, Georges Cuvier, Goldilocks Zone, HMS Beagle, James Hutton, Louis Agassiz, Mendelian genetics, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Principles of Geology, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Scotland, South America, uniformitarianism, William Paley}

Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 1, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science

15}

Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

16}

It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, Democritus, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

18}

Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Linnaeus, common ancestry, Craig Venter, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution (journal), genetic engineering, geneticists, Georges Cuvier, historical sciences, intelligent design, molecular biologists, phylogenetics, primates, scientists, separate ancestry, statistics, Summer Seminar, systematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 17, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apes, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, dinosaurs, evolution, Georges Cuvier, human body, intelligent design, John Ray, Louis Agassiz, Louis Pasteur, lungs, museums, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Smithsonian Institution, walking}

At the Smithsonian, the Nation’s Museum, It’s All Darwin, All the Time

_{David Coppedge
November 17, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Charles Darwin dominates almost every exhibit. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, evolution, Georges Cuvier, intelligent design, materialism, MIT Press, paleontologists, somatic cells, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Systems Biology, teleology}

The Return of Teleology to Biology

_{Brian Miller
August 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, atomists, bees, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, evolution, French Revolution, Georges Cuvier, giraffe’s neck, J.B.S. Haldane, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, paleontologists, Plato, punctuated equilibrium, scientific materialism, Scott Turner, tautology, teleology, vitalism}

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution

6}

The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›