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Got That? The Complex Story of African Mammal Evolution

December 3, 2003

The article by Jean-Jacques Jaeger in the Dec. 4 issue of Nature1 is pretty upbeat about the evolutionary history of African mammals, but takes a bit of untangling to follow. He begins confidently, “For some 40 million years, the Afro-Arabian landmass existed in splendid isolation. A newly described fossil fauna from the end […]

Fossils

How Bambi Gave Rise to Moby Dick

December 20, 2002

The title of this entry, in Kipling Just-So Story format, is only slightly modified from an article from The Guardian, titled, “How Bambi evolved into Moby-Dick.” This is not a joke; check on the link and see. The article is about the latest fossil claimed to be ancestral to whales. Hans Thewissen (Northeastern […]

Darwin and Evolution

The Why and How of Leopard Spots

October 20, 2002

51; A leopard may not be able to change its spots (Jeremiah 13:23), but maybe evolution can – if evolutionists – or Rudyard Kipling – can tell us how or why. A headline in the BBC News promised to tell us “how the leopard got its spots,” while PhysOrg promised to reveal, “Why the leopard […]

Darwin and Evolution

A Hairy Evolution Story

May 20, 2002

51; A mammal hair was found in amber. It is claimed to be 100 million years old, but it is identical to modern mammal hair. What is the meaning of this find? How should it be interpreted? It may say more about the modern evolutionist than about evolution itself. New Scientist told the […]

Mammals

Findings vs Surmisings in Evolutionary Biology

April 20, 2002

51; What part of the following story is a finding, and what is a supposition? Science Daily told about work by Julie Baker (Stanford) and a graduate student who set out to discover the evolutionary origin of the mammalian placenta. They evaluated differences between placentas and eggs of a number of different animals, and told […]

Birds

How Evolutionary Science Is Done: From Deduction to Story

April 20, 2002

“Evolution is a fact!” Carl Sagan stated emphatically on TV in his 1980 Cosmos series (now in reruns on The Science Channel). Following this lead, many evolutionists repeat this four-word phrase, often augmenting it like, Evolution is a fact, like gravity (see association). This motto has some interesting properties in its effects on scientific research. […]

Mammals

Bats Exhibit Aerodynamic Superiority

January 20, 2002

They may look clumsy fluttering around in the twilight air, but “Flexible, highly articulated wings give bats more options for flight than birds: more lift, less drag, greater maneuverability.” Thus reads the caption to a picture of a bat in flight on a Brown University press release. Researchers at Brown U are studying the differences […]

Amazing Facts

How and Why Whiskers Whisk

January 20, 2002

Scientists at Weizmann Institute found some interesting things about whiskers, reports EurekAlert. While working with rats, they noticed that the whiskers are always in motion, twitching and sensing objects around them. They discovered that two kinds of neurons are involved in sending whisker signals to the brain. The “whisking” neurons are active all the time, […]

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