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What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories? 

The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›
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#6 Story of 2022: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›
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Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature

Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers

The human knee is still well ahead of what even the most advanced human engineers have managed. Read More ›
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Photo: A labrid fish, by laszlo-photo, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

The extent to which the authors recognize the implications of their conclusions is difficult to say. Read More ›

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