Tag: Metazoa

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Date
August 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, Chordata, chordates, common ancestor, evolution, genomes, hominid, Homo sapiens, inference, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, mammals, Metazoa, Network of Life, ontology, organisms, Pan troglodytes, paragraphs, phylogenetic inference, phylogenetics, phylogeny, species, statistical noise, Systematic Biology, systematics, traits, Tree of Life}

Testing Phylogenetic Hypotheses: A Question for You

_{Science & Culture
August 12, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

2}

You can read this proposition a dozen times over and still be unable to say what it disallows in phylogenetic inference. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gabon, Metazoa, morphology, Natural History Museum, nutrients, precambrian fossils, protists, Vienna, word salad}

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

12}

What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australia, bioRxiv, Bryozoa, bryozoans, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, Metazoa, ontogeny, paleontology, Porifera, sponges, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Update on Cambrian Bryozoans

_{Günter Bechly
January 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

The authors emphasize that “the origin of the bryozoans remains a mystery” but explicitly confirm the reality of the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Austria, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gabon, Metazoa, multicellular organisms, paleontology, rocks, taxonomy, University of Poitiers}

Fossil Friday: How an Austrian Scientist Concocted a New Domain of Life called Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
June 2, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

6}

Is there any other evidence that this sensational discovery was nothing but hype? Sure there is. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Professor Dave, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

22}

A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, emergence, heat, innovation, intelligence, Metazoa, molecular clock, natural selection, oxygen, Philip Donoghue, phylum, Precambrian, sponges, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma}

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

_{David Coppedge
June 15, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 7, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, Biological Reviews, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, evolutionary tree, Genome Research, hierarchy, intelligent design, mammals, Metazoa, New Scientist, Precambrian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, universal common ancestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

_{Casey Luskin
September 7, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bilateria, biological complexity, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, eLife, Eumetazoa, gene regulatory networks, genes, genetic information, Hoover Institution, Hox genes, Larry Moran, Metazoa, multiverse, Nature Communications, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, Peter Robinson, Planulozoa, Response to Criticism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, U.C. Berkeley, Uncommon Knowledge, University of Toronto}

Did the Origin of Animals Require New Genes?

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

Materialists who purport to explain the origin of nature's complexity by smuggling in information unwittingly demonstrate the need for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, cnidarian, echinoderms, Ediacaran Period, fungus, jellyfish, marine invertebrates, Mark McMenamin, Metazoa, Mikhail Fedonkin, Precambrian House of Cards Series, sponges, Tribrachidium, Trilobozoa, Vendobionta}

Uncertain Affinities of Trilobozoa

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2021

Evolution

3}

That the same fossils can be attributed to at least six different phyla of marine invertebrates as well as terrestrial fungi really should give reason to pause. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, Ikaria, Kimberella, Metazoa, phyla, Precambrian House of Cards Series}

Ediacarans Are Not Animals

_{Günter Bechly
March 23, 2021

Evolution

2}

Even Evans et al. (2021) themselves admitt that "phylogenetic affinities for most of the Ediacara Biota remain enigmatic." Read More ›