Tag: stem group

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, China, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), hemoglobin, homoplasy, Illinois, intelligent design, lancelets, missing links, science, South Africa, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 15, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, ancestral species, cladistics, common descent, Darwinism, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, microevolution, phylogenetic systematics, Pleistocene, Pliocene, stem group, 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
January 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, common descent, Darwinian evolution, entomology, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, morphology, Neo-Darwinism, Paleocene, paleoentomology, paleontology, phylogeny, stem group, stratigraphy, systematics, Tree of Life}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

_{Günter Bechly
January 26, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian mechanisms, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, humans, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, lizards, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, paleontology, population genetics, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

_{Günter Bechly
October 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

_{Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›