Category Archives: Evolution

Is woolly mammoth video a hoax?

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Robert
Woolly_Mammoth_NOT

The huge beast was supposedly filmed wading through icy waters in the wilds of Siberia. The footage, claimed to have been caught by a government-employed engineer last summer

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Magnetic reversal could trigger evolution, says expert

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Robert

Changes in handedness of DNA (triggered by a magnetic reversal) would lead to gene activation or deactivation,

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Magnetic reversal “imminent,” says National Geographic – Video

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Robert

Scientists agree that Earth has long been subjected to thousands of traumatic magnetic reversals of the poles, and that we’re due for another — but when?

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Burgess Shale provides evidence of evolutionary leaps

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Robert
Artist's conception of Opabinia on the ocean floor

“The Burgess Shale adds to evidence that evolution proceeded with bouts of rapid diversification interspersed with extinctions,” says this article in the Smithsonian, thus bolstering my contention that evolution does take leaps.

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