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What Darwin Didnšt Know
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Why I am not a Darwinist

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What Darwin got right:
Common Descent
Natural Selection
Sexual Selection
Biogeography
Population-based perspective
Evidence, evidence, evidence

What Darwin got wrong
Heredity

Major Post-Darwinian Events
Genetics: 1900s-1920s
Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: 1930s-1940s
Molecular Biology: 1950s-
Evo-Devo: 1980s-
Genomics, Bioinformatics: 1990s-
Fossils!

Pachyaena
Ambulocetus
Dalanistes
Rhodocetus
Basilosaurus
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Reptile toxins
Suzuki Y, Nijhout HF (2006) Science 311:650-652
Pharyngeal arches
Development of chick parathyroid
Where is the fish parathyroid?
Chordate body plan
Arthropod body plan
Annelid body plan
Arthropod Hox genes
Chordate Hox genes
Hemichordate Hox genes
A hypothetical common ancestor
What else should Darwin know?
Age of the earth and plate tectonics
Mass extinctions and catastrophes
Cambrian and pre-Cambrian fossil record
Instances of observed evolution
Molecular systematics and phylogeny
Genomics: human, chimp, mouse, flyŠ
New model systems
Development, regulation, gene interactions
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Recommended Reading