Fame and Fortune (cont.): What constitutes a sister taxon to tetrapods? By Margaret Helder, PhD (continued from yesterday) Ever since Prof. Edward Drinker Cope identified a lobe finned fish called Eusthenopteron from Miguasha in Quebec, as a promising ancestor of four footed animals, the question arose as to what features in a fish would […]
Evolutionary storytelling about giraffes' long necks goes back before Darwin, but all the tales have one thing in common: they don't work. Doesn't matter. Evolution marches on.