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frogs

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 31, 2020
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Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Why frogs have such weird skulls

Denyse O'Leary
March 31, 2020
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
Food for thought: "Weirdly, it's easier for us to generate beautiful images of skulls than it is to know what these frogs eat," Blackburn said. "Natural history remains quite hard. Just because we know things exist doesn't mean we know anything about them." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 4, 2019
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Intelligent Design
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But how do frog dads know how to look after tadpoles?

Denyse O'Leary
September 4, 2019
Intelligent Design
It’s not enough to say that it benefits their offspring. What is the exact mechanism by which they learned to carry out this process? In this case, the researchers are honest enough not to just start emitting Darwinblather. They admit we don’t really know. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2019
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
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They didn’t find the parenting switch…

Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
They didn’t find anything like a “parenting switch” that applied across frog and mouse species, they noted. But parenting behavior, however caused, may be very much older that we used to think (the rise of amphibians about 360 million years ago?). And yet many later life forms don’t care for their offspring. The more evolution becomes a history, the more it features puzzling complexities that can't be resolved by a fatuous appeal to an "ism". Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 25, 2019
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation, stasis
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Researchers: Newly discovered frog separated from others by 50 million years

Denyse O'Leary
March 25, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation, stasis
"It's a perfect scenario for cooking up new species," he said. What? Wait! This isn’t a “new species.” This is a holdover from 50 million years ago, during which it’s always been an obvious frog. Read More ›