{"id":68,"date":"2007-04-09T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/archives\/68"},"modified":"2007-04-09T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T14:59:06","slug":"more-on-mammal-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"More on Mammal Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Cenozoic fossil record in Nebraska and some parts of Kansas, I would think that using mammal evolution as a theme in evolution might be a good strategy in our part of the country.   Lots of good details. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, I reported that a paper in Nature would, perhaps, change our understanding on mammalian origins.  Naturally, proponents of Intelligent Design and others in the anti-science crowd have tried to co-opt this research to imply that evolutionary theory is obviously flawed.  <\/p>\n<p>Here is a nice follow-up and critique by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2007\/04\/mammalian_macro.html#more\"><strong>Nick Matzke<\/strong> <\/a>from NCSE on Panda&#8217;s Thumb.<\/p>\n<p>BW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Cenozoic fossil record in Nebraska and some parts of Kansas, I would think that using mammal evolution as a theme in evolution might be a good strategy in our part of the country. Lots of good details. 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