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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, Early Paleocene, East Asia, Euarchontoglires, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, guinea pigs, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Oligocene, Paleocene, PaleoDB, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, beavers, carnivores, Darwinism, ecosystem, elephants, engineers, evolution, herbivores, humans, hyenas, intelligent design, lions, mammals, oryx, Stanford University, stewardship, trunks, tusks, vertebrates}

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, common descent, Darwinism, Desmostylia, dugongs, elephants, Embrithopoda, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Jamaica, mammals, Paleocene, PaleoDB, paleontology, Proboscidea, sea cows, sirenians, synapomorphies, Tethytheria, Washington State, whales}

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

_{Günter Bechly
January 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, bats, behavior, fish, hippocampus, homeostasis, information, intelligent design, mammals, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, place cells, Research, self, zebrafish}

Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

_{Eric Cassell
January 18, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Science

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A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, alligators, anole lizard, asteroid, birds, crocodiles, dinosaurs, intelligence, lizards, mammals, NASA, octopuses, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, theropod, Tyrannosaurus rex, Vanderbilt University}

New Claim: Tyrannosaur Was as Smart as a Monkey

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 17, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, convergent evolution, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian mechanism, dolphins, elephants, evolution, foresight, fur, genes, hairlessness, Human, humans, intelligent design, mammals, planning, Science Alert, selection pressure, University of Pittsburgh}

More Evolution by Devolution: Mammalian Hairlessness

_{David Klinghoffer
January 11, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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The mechanism of Darwinian evolution absolutely works — by breaking genes, when that provides a selective advantage, or turning them off. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Afrotheria, Belgium, Egypt, elephant shrews, Eocene, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, living fossils, Madagascar, mammals, Namibia, Paleogene, Pleistocene}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, aardvarks, Africa, ants, Darwinists, Egypt, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Kenya, living fossils, mammals, Miocene, paleontology, placental mammals, Pleistocene, termites, Tubulidentata, Uganda}

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

_{Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, asteroid, bats, Canada, carnivores, Chicxulub impact, dinosaurs, Disney, Early Paleocene, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, mammals, Montana, North America, paleoanthropology, Paleocene, Paleogene, Plesiadapiformes, primates, rodents, sirenians, Triceratops}

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

_{Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›