Unraveling the Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny

Intelligent Design the Future

Apr 24 2024 | 00:38:17

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Show Notes

Classifying organisms is an important function of biology. But if phylogenetics is ultimately based on a floundering theory of origins, how helpful is it to our understanding of living things? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid and paleoentemologist Gunter Bechly unpack some of the major problems with arachnid phylogeny and its implications for the common descent hypothesis.

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