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At Present, the Origin of Life Isn’t a Scientific Question; It’s a Political One

Some answers are Correct Groupthink but others will get you Canceled. It’s not clear that the current approach will enable many more insights. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Borna Bevanda, via Unsplash.

The Tao of Meow: Cats Mew Mostly for Humans

It might be smart to ask people who work with animals to interpret some of this first. Read More ›
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Image credit: Nathan Jacobson.

Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jesper Jurcenoks, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dan Stern Cardinale: Comparative Biology, Invincible Ignorance

Stern Cardinale loses it at the point where I note that Darwin-boosters go mute when asked how complex traits evolve (such as, say, those of bats or whales). Read More ›
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Darwinism Is a Potemkin Theory of Evolution

As with the legendary fake villages, evolutionary theory consists of a thin façade cloaking a lack of substance. Read More ›
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Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Read More ›
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Image: Tetrapodophis, photo Tischlinger in Gramling 2016, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?

There should have existed transitional forms, which exhibit at least some typical features of basal snake anatomy. Read More ›
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Photo: An artist imagines Australopithecus afarensis, Hall of Human Origins, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; reconstruction by John Gurche; photographed by Tim Evanson / CC BY-SA.

Australopithecines and Retroactive Confessions of Ignorance

If a few teeth of intermediate size and shape make “the most complete chain of human evolution,” then the evidence for human evolution must be quite modest. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA Universe, via Flicker (cropped).

The Silence of the Space Aliens

The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›
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Photo: Baby green sea turtle, by Tyler Karaszewski, via Flickr (cropped).

Sea Turtles Display Elegant Design Solutions; They’re Also Really Cute

Apart from their being adorable, what many may not realize is that their motion on the sand is also amazingly efficient. Read More ›

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