Tag: Namibia

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, baboons, mirror, Namibia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, self-awareness, University College London}

Wild Baboons Fail the Mirror Self-Awareness Test

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 31, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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In a video, it seems clear that not one of the animals recognizes that the figure in the mirror is a reflection of itself. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, coccolithophores, Darwin's Dilemma, dinoflagellates, Ernst Haeckel, foraminiferans, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lower Cambrian, Middle Triassic, Mongolia, Namibia, Precambrian, protists, Richard Dawkins, snowball Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, Upper Triassic, zooplankton}

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, Darwinism, deforestation, elephant shrews, Eocene, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, K/Pg impact event, Late Paleocene, Madagascar, molecular data, Morocco, Namibia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida

_{Günter Bechly
January 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Should we draw any conclusions from such consistent empirical failures of a theory? 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
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, atheism, Atlantic Ocean, BBC News, biogeography, birds, Casey Luskin, common descent, Eugenie Scott, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hoatzin, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Egnor, Namibia, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), rafting, rafting animals, South America, Stephen Meyer, The New Yorker, Tree of Life}

“Bizarre Bird” Highlights the Problem of Biogeography

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

6}

While hoatzins are bad at flying, evolutionists have been forced to credit these birds with some impressive rafting — unbelievably impressive. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 29, 2022

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Argument from Reason, chimpanzees, crows, design filter, Design Inference, designer, fairy circles, geoglyphs, intelligent design, John West, Jordan, Live Science, Middle East, Namibia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Syria, World War I}

Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

_{David Coppedge
March 29, 2022

Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University}

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

_{Günter Bechly
January 1, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
July 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Africa, age restriction, algorithms, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, documentary, genocide, German ideology, German Southwest Africa, Herero people, imperialism, Namibia, Politicians, pop culture, preachers, Racism, religious racism, scientific racism, Second Reich, Social Darwinism, The Biology of the Second Reich, World War I, YouTube videos}

African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism

_{John G. West
July 20, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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My documentary only tells one part of the story of racism, and only a part of the story of Social Darwinism's influence on Western imperialism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, China, Darwin's Doubt, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran animals, Ediacaran organisms, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University}

The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear

_{Günter Bechly
April 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, brood chambers, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, lophophorates, lophotrochozoans, lumens, metazoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, paleontology, Science Advances, Second Namacalathus Series, Stephen Meyer}

Resurrecting Namacalathus as an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
January 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The new fossils stem from a layer in the Nama Group of Namibia, just below an ash bed that could be radiometrically dated to 547.32 ± 0.65 million years. Read More ›