Tag: lancelets

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Fossil Friday (series), Hallucigenia, holotype, lancelets, Pikaia, Royal Ontario Museum, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, China, Devonian era, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), hagfish, hemoglobin, homoplasy, Illinois, intelligent design, jawed vertebrates, keratin, lampreys, lancelets, Mazon Creek, microCT, missing links, molecular studies, science, South Africa, stem group, vertebrate evolution}

Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 15, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Chordata, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, humans, lancelets, Maotianshan Shales, Metaspriggina, phyla, preservation, sampling bias, Science (journal), sea squirts, South China, tunicates, Utah, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, amniotes, amphibians, BIO-Complexity, birds, bony fish, Charles Darwin, chondrichthyans, cleavage, common ancestry, development, developmental biology, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, gastrulation, homology, intelligent design, lancelets, mammals, peer-reviewed literature, phylotypic stage, primates, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, teleosts, tissues, vertebrate embryos, waiting-time problem}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin
March 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, acorn worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, electrical current, evolution, Hong Kong, invertebrates, lancelets, mitochondrion, nervous system, neurons, Nobel Prize, phylum, Placozoa, plasticity, PLOS Biology, PNAS, sea urchins, starfish, synaptic transmission, tunicates, vertebrates}

Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover?

_{Science and Culture
August 15, 2018

Evolution

7}

Simple, small, and worldwide in distribution, the placozoa don’t fit any clear evolutionary picture. Read More ›