Tag: population size

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, citrate, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA replication, DNA replisome, Escherichia coli, evolution, generation turnover time, genome duplication, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, lizards, Michael Behe, multicellularity, mutation rates, mutations, natural selection, neutral mutations, Paramecium tetraurelia, placenta, population size, retrovirus, Richard Lenski, Rutgers University, Scott Minnich, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, type III secretion system, viruses, YouTube channels}

Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 24, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, "Out of Africa", Africans, bioRxiv, Current Biology, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, introgression, Nature (journal), Nature Genetics, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel laureates, non-Africans, paleontology, PNAS, population size, Science (journal), scientific community, Svante Pääbo, University of Cambridge}

No. 9 Story of 2024: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

_{Günter Bechly
December 24, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

5}

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, culture, feathers, humans, intelligence, interbreeding, Neanderthals, paleoanthropologists, Phys.org, population size, Smithsonian Magazine}

Neanderthals Were a Lot More Like Humans than We Realize

_{Casey Luskin
July 15, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

5}

There’s still much we don’t know and the evidence is sparse — due in part to the fact that Neanderthals probably had a relatively small overall population size. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 19, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, "Out of Africa", Africans, bioRxiv, Current Biology, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, introgression, Nature (journal), Nature Genetics, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel laureates, non-Africans, paleontology, PNAS, population size, Science (journal), scientific community, Svante Pääbo, University of Cambridge}

Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

_{Günter Bechly
April 19, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

4}

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, cell membrane, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, outboard motor, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Living Waters, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, mutations, Ola Hössjer, Pakicetus, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, population size, Professor Dave, recombination, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail

_{Günter Bechly
September 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

11}

These fossils are often celebrated as missing links and a success story for Darwinism. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 20, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, alleles, BioLogos, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chromosomes, DNA, genomes, heterozygosity, human origins, humans, Moon, mutations, population size, Steve Schaffner}

Human Genetic Variation — A Tale that Keeps on Telling

_{Ann Gauger
December 20, 2021

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

If the pockmarks on the moon showed this kind of specific array surrounding each crater, we would think someone was using the moon for target practice. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, amphibians, brachiopods, Cambrian Explosion, cephalopods, corals, Darwin's Finches, endangered species, evolution, fossilization, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, genotype, macroevolution, North America, ornithology, population size, South America, speciation, women}

“Darwin’s Finches”: Galápagos Islands as an Evolutionary Model

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 30, 2020

Evolution

13}

Taking the facts and arguments presented together, it appears to be clear that no macroevolution is happening in “Darwin’s finches.” Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 25, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, 1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, BIO-Complexity, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chimpanzees, Dennis Venema, effective population size, evolutionary assumptions, first couple, genetic diversity, humans, mortality, Ola Hössjer, parsimony, Peaceful Science, population size, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Steve Schaffner}

More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?

_{Ann Gauger
October 25, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, David Snoke, E. coli, Ebola, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, HIV, malaria, Michael Lynch, Michigan State University, mutation rate, polar bears, population size, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Telliamed Revisited, tiktaalik, tinkering, turtles, viruses, waiting-time problem}

For Dreams of Darwinian Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution Is an Insuperable Problem

_{Michael Behe
March 14, 2019

Evolution

13}

Professor Lenski’s contrasting of the frequency versus importance of evolutionary changes is misconceived and his illustrations are inapt. Read More ›