by Eugene McCarthy Free download from: http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html#.Ud5d8GSgn6k Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Recalling my April 2012 review of evolutionary geneticist Eugene McCarthy’s provocative opus On the Origins of New Forms of Life: A New Theory, British reader Mervyn Sanders wrote recently to mention that “Dr. McCarthy is now claiming that humans are a hybrid of chimp […]
Swallows may have evolved quicker take-off ability in only 30 years
Shorter wings help LINCOLN, Nebraska––Cliff swallows nesting under highway overpasses in southwestern Nebraska appear to have evolved shorter wings in only 30 years to help them avoid colliding with cars, ornithologists Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown reported in the March 18, 2013 edition of Current Biology. The hypothesized adaptation might also help cliff […]
On the Origins of New Forms of Life: A New Theory
by Eugene McCarthy Free download from: http://www.macroevolution.net Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Several years ago in an article about pangolins I transiently mentioned the argument of evolutionary geneticist Gene McCarthy that pangolins and armadillos might be living descendants of stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, two related dinosaur families whom McCarthy contends were synapsid proto-mammals, not reptiles. McCarthy also contends […]