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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 1, 2023
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Fossil insect found at WalMart… maybe not even extinct

Denyse O'Leary
March 1, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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 populations of this large, Jurassic-Era insect yet to be discovered, explained Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State's Insect Identification Lab." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 2, 2021
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Evolution, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Contrary to a century-long assumption, we are more closely related to snails and flies than to starfish

Denyse O'Leary
April 2, 2021
Evolution, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
If things are really uncertain at such a fundamental level (protostomes vs. deuterostomes), evolutionary biology could do with a lot less dogmatism in addressing the public. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 26, 2021
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horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Horizontal gene transfer between plants and insects acknowledged

Denyse O'Leary
March 26, 2021
horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Plants
So what becomes of all the Darwinian casuistry around “fitness” and “costly fitness” if things can happen so simply as this? The article emphasizes the benefits of studying “evolution.” Indeed, but that can’t mean fronting Darwinism 101 any more. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 4, 2020
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Biomimicry, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Insects were mimicking lichens 165 million years ago

Denyse O'Leary
September 4, 2020
Biomimicry, Evolution, Intelligent Design
Whoever wrote the media release was very, very light on the Darwinblather. Mind you, claiming that it all happened via endless iterations of natural selection acting on random mutations wears a bit thin when the time Darwinians thought they had has been sharply reduced. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 14, 2020
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Evolution
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A bee from 100 million years ago

Denyse O'Leary
February 14, 2020
Evolution
Just another bee, generally, but possibly thrown off course by parasites, it seems to have landed in resin. You’d almost think time didn’t happen the way they say. In terms of how much it changes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 23, 2019
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Ecology, extinction, Intelligent Design
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Insectologists swat insects-are-doomed paper

Denyse O'Leary
March 23, 2019
Ecology, extinction, Intelligent Design
The temptation for some seems to be to resort to apocalypse voodoo to demonstrate a crisis, at the expense of the methods that make scientists worth listening to, as an alternative to supermarket tabloids. File this one with: The real reasons people don’t "trust science" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 10, 2019
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extinction, Intelligent Design, Media, speciation
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Insects in decline? Science writer says it’s myth

Denyse O'Leary
March 10, 2019
extinction, Intelligent Design, Media, speciation
Ridley discusses several other scare claims that did not survive scrutiny and notes that the best estimate is that insect species are dying out at rates simliar to mammals and birds (1 to 5 per cent per century): “A problem, but not Armageddon.” Read More ›