Often portrayed as a simple Darwinian development, it was recently admitted at Nature to be a puzzle.
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/at-evolution-news-evolutions-tall-tale-the-giraffe-neck/
Those "new species" that radiation would produce have always existed and always will exist — in the human imagination at least. Meanwhile, it is just the dogs. “Evolution” led them back to ...
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/stray-dogs-vs-new-species-at-chernobyl/
At Biological Reviews: The deuterostomes continue to elude a single, clean narrative to describe their early evolution, a state that is both fascinating and frustrating in equal measure.
Richard Buggs is currently Senior Research Leader (Plant Health & Adaptation) at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at Queen Mary, University of London.
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/table-talk-evolution-and-christianity-is-there-a-conflict/
At Phys.org: "The giant lacewing was formerly widespread across North America, but was mysteriously extirpated from eastern North America by the 1950s. This discovery suggests there may be relic ...
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/fossil-insect-found-at-walmart-maybe-not-even-extinct/
Carvunis should watch her back. There are lots of useless Darwinprofs out there clogging the system till retirement. They have nothing to do but take down anyone who questions their orthodoxy.
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/yeast-has-genes-in-waiting/
So evolution has foresight? In any event, there are tons of science news stories out there about “junk DNA” that turned out to be functional. There are 252 stories on the topic here at Uncomm...
That’s “Evolution” for you. Always thinking ahead.
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/spinosaur-brain-shows-preadaptation-for-catching-fish/
Giant viruses are an interesting crew. They behave in some ways like life forms but technically they are not thought, in many quarters, to be life forms. There is a good chance that traditional D...
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/did-giant-viruses-grow-from-small-ones/
"Is The Selfish Gene holding back medicine and cancer cures? The world’s most incendiary evolutionary biologist asks if we need to rethink DNA." - Evolution 2
Cognitive scientist Hoffman starts by trying to align his consciousness theory with standard evolution theory and then just chucks that and says what he thinks.
The "mystery" of "why humans alone amongst the apes first began to walk on two feet," and "why these chimpanzees spend so much time in the trees" presents yet another disconnect between the expec...
If a specific language evolved along with a specific people group, it isn't clear that this would result in an innate ability to become fluent in any human language, as children raised in cross-c...
"ccording to Lewis in these essays, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think that in nature complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things."
"There is no such thing as a settled theory of evolution. On that point, textbook orthodoxy is simply false."
https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/at-evolution-news-there-is-no-settled-theory-of-evolution/