Tag: hybridization

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, astrology, birds, Charles Darwin, cladistic analysis, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), homeopathy, hybridization, Jerry Coyne, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins}

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

_{Günter Bechly
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

12}

Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Carboniferous Period, caterpillar, crustaceans, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Holometabola, holometabolan insects, homology, hybridization, Illustra Media, insects, intelligent design, irreversibility, Lepidoptera, Maria Sybilla Merian, Metamorphosis, paleontology, prolegs, tree resin, Trichoptera}

Fossil Friday: How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not

_{Günter Bechly
November 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

24}

In spite of all the scientific efforts by Darwinists, the origin of complete metamorphosis in holometabolan insects remains an unsolved mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, David Coppedge, evolution, Evolution News, genes, hybridization, intelligent design, origins, sex, species, Star Trek, Starships, Stephen Barr, symmetry, universal common descent}

Now, with Starships, Evolutionary Origins Become Still More Difficult

_{Rob Sheldon
April 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

1}

So it appears that self-contained gene transposon "packages" permit transfer of genes from one species to another Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, African elephants, amphibians, Asian elephants, Avalon explosion, Bayesian reasoning, birds, body plans, bottlenose dolphin, Cambrian Explosion, cattle, cedars, cetaceans, chimpanzees, European common frog, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Genesis, gorilla, great apes, Homo sapiens, horse, house sparrow, humans, hybridization, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, marine iguanas, moor frog, pygmy hippo, reptiles, river hippo, spectacled bear, whale evolution}

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists

_{Günter Bechly
April 25, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

21}

I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Methanoperedens, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

9}

Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alleles, CELS 2021, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian theory, evolution, Germany, hybridization, mutations, Science Advances, Stephen Jay Gould, U.C. Berkeley}

Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models

_{Science and Culture
July 2, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight. Read More ›

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Date
June 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, Big Data, Carl Woese, Cédric Blais, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Current Biology, Darwinian theory, eukarya, genomics, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, John M. Archibald, jumping genes, lateral gene transfer, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, taxonomy, Texas, transposons, Tree of Life}

Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adaptive Radiation, beak size, biology textbooks, evolution, Federal Government, fitness, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Geospizinae, hybridization, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sisyphean evolution, Sisyphus, weather, Winston Churchill, Zombie Science (book)}

Galápagos Finches and a Surprising Deletion

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 18, 2020

Evolution

4}

How could the authors suddenly do this? Some of the following points may be considered. Read More ›

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Date
July 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, adaptive mutations, biologists, biology journals, bioRxiv, Darwin Centennial, E. coli, evolution, hybridization, intelligent design, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, paleobiology, peer review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, punctuated equilibrium, punk eek, random mutations, redundancy, Scopes Monkey Trial, stem cells, Stephen Jay Gould, sunflowers, University of British Columbia, University of Southern California}

Five New Biology Papers Show Cracks in Darwin’s Foundation

_{Science and Culture
July 30, 2020

Evolution

8}

Are there rumblings of discontent? Is it getting safer to question the claims of conventional neo-Darwinism? Read More ›

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Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adaptive Radiation, Brigham Young University, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cornell University, Current Biology, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, genetic information, Harvard University, Heliconius, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, Jonathan Wells, phylogenetic tree, PNAS, regulation, Science (journal), The Scientist}

Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms

_{Science and Culture
December 6, 2019

Evolution

6}

In butterfly “evolution,” new findings show mechanisms at work other than random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›