Tag Archives: Collagen fibers

You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Jaime A. Headden

Dr. Alan Feduccia is struggling for relevance. One might say this about much of his career, from his first big book on birds (1980’s The Age of Birds), to his repeat performances (The Origin and Evolution of Birds, 1996’s first … Continue reading →

Posted in Creationism, Paleontology, Philosophy | Tagged , , | 14 Comments

Canadian Amber, Fin-Tailed Dinosaurs, and a Despairing Blogger

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Jaime A. Headden

Science, as a process, promotes an adversarial system. A scientist poses an hypothesis from an observation, then attempts to refute this hypothesis through further observations arrived at from experimentation and testing, and poses a further hypothesis from the results; if … Continue reading →

Posted in Biological Comparison, Biology, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Reconstruction, Science Reporting, Taphonomy | Tagged , , , , , | 7 Comments

Lingham-Soliar’s Review of Chinese Fossil Preservation

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Jaime A. Headden

…or, an article that can be summed up by the following rhetoric: “On this 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, perhaps the greatest evolutionary biologist of all time, I ask, has the care and caution that characterized Darwin’s … Continue reading →

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