GinkgoLeaves Type post Author Emily Reeves Date March 10, 2026 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionLife Sciences Tagged , animal embryos, Cambrian fossils, coelacanth, common ancestor, common ancestry, common characters, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwin's Finches, embryonic stage, environmental pressures, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary predictions, Galápagos finches, geological time, ginkgo trees, horseshoe crabs, hummingbirds, Linnaeus, living fossils, Max Telford, molecular clock, morphology, Nautilus, nightjars, penguins, South Africa, stasis, swallows, swifts, The Tree of Life, The Tree of Life (book), Tree of Life, tuatara, University College London, Wollemi pine In Stories from Max Telford’s New Book, Failed Predictions of Common Descent Emily Reeves March 10, 2026 Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences 9 Well-documented examples of organisms show remarkable stasis over hundreds of millions of years. Read More ›
TreeofLifeinBahrain Type post Author Emily Reeves Date March 9, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionGeneticsIntelligent Design Tagged , amino acid, Barbie, beauty, Carl Linnaeus, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, classification, coelacanth, CRISPR, Dogs, evolutionary biology, genealogical ancestry, genes, genetics, goldfish, kangaroos, koalas, marsupial, Matchbox cars, Max Telford, nucleotides, phylogenetics, quolls, Tasmanian wolf, taxonomy, The Tree of Life (book), thylacine, Tim Ingold, Tindell Hopwood, trading cards, University College London On Tree of Life, Max Telford Misses the Design Possibility Emily Reeves March 9, 2026 Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design 9 I’ll be reviewing the book topically, beginning with the beauty and importance of classification and ending with the implications of belief in the tree of life. Read More ›
Spiraliaclade Type post Date January 27, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionZoology Tagged , Ana Silva, bioRxiv, cell cleavage, chaetae, clades, cladogenesis, common ancestor, Current Biology, deuterostomes, embryologists, evolution, larval types, Max Telford, metazoans, paleontology, phyla, pre-publication MS, segmentation, shells, spiral cleavage, spiral pattern, Spiralia, superclade, synapomorphies, taxonomic category, textbooks, University College London, Waldemar Schleip, zoology Giving Up on the Branching Order of Spiralia: More Findings from Max Telford’s Group Science & Culture January 27, 2026 Evolution, Zoology 3 The open agnosticism in this new MS is a short step away from throwing in the towel entirely, at an even more radical level. Read More ›
