Tag: Pleistocene

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, carnivores, cats, clades, convergence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, jaws, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, paleontologists, Pleistocene, predators, Simon Conway Morris, skulls, teleology}

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Australopithecines, Chris Stringer, Darwin critics, Eurasia, Europe, evolutionary narrative, Fossil Friday (series), gene flow, gravity, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Israel, Levant, Misliya cave, modern humans, Natural History Museum, palaeoanthropology, Pleistocene, population genetics, uranium}

Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, ancestral species, Asian elephant, canids, chronospecies, cladistics, common descent, Darwinism, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, microevolution, phylogenetic systematics, Pleistocene, Pliocene, species-to-species transitions, stem group, technical literature, Willi Hennig, wolves}

Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?

_{Günter Bechly
March 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, cheetahs, China, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francisco Ayala, fraud, junk science, New World, Pleistocene, PNAS, Russia, Science (journal), skull}

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

_{Günter Bechly
June 16, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Arctic Ocean, Asian elephant, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, passenger pigeon, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic, wooly mammoth}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 2, 2023

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, African Savannah, behavior, cathedrals, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian evolution, David Barash, environment of evolutionary adaptedness, evo psych, evolution, evolutionary psychology, genes, human origins, humans, intelligent design, just-so stories, Moon, museums, music, Oskar Schindler, Philip Skell, Pleistocene, Richard Dawkins, Subrena Smith, survival machines, The Descent of Man, Victorian England}

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

_{Casey Luskin
March 2, 2023

Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” 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
Michael Behe

Date
December 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arctic, brown bear, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, deletions, devolution, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic information, indels, metabolism, mutations, natural selection, Pleistocene, random mutation, Research, seal blubber, woolly mammoth, yeast}

#7 Story of 2022: Mammoth Support for Devolution

_{Michael Behe
December 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. 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 16, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, America, Antarctica, anteaters, Argentina, armadillos, clades, Darwinists, Early Eocene, megafauna, molecular clock, Natural History Museum of Vienna, New World, Patagonia, phylogenetic systematics, placental mammals, Pleistocene, primates, sloths, Tubulidentata, Xenarthra}

Fossil Friday: The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans

_{Günter Bechly
December 16, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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Should we dare to consider the possibility that something is wrong with the Darwinist assumptions? Heaven forbid! Read More ›