06Aug 2026 by Post

Paper Promotes “Weirdest Theory Yet” for the Cambrian Explosion

animal phyla, animals, bilaterian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, coprolites, digestive systems, ecosystems, Ediacaran fossils, Evolution, fecal matter, Feces Theory, genes, genetic information, Gizmodo, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, poop, The Best of Evolutionary Theory 2026, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
First the Oxygen Theory, now the Feces Theory. But how much experience do we really have with feces creating new genetic information? Source
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07Sep 2021 by Post

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

angiosperms, Biological Reviews, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, evolutionary tree, FORA.tv, Genome Research, hierarchy, Intelligent Design, mammals, Metazoa, New Scientist, phylogenetic data, phylogenomic conflict, Precambrian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, U.C. Davis, universal common ancestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Source
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