Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 64 (9163 total)
3 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,419 Year: 3,676/9,624 Month: 547/974 Week: 160/276 Day: 0/34 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   What was Axelrod's hypothesis about the Cambrian explosion?
tomato
Member (Idle past 4324 days)
Posts: 39
Joined: 10-11-2009


Message 1 of 2 (543194)
01-16-2010 3:14 AM


Creationists are fond of quoting Axelrod as saying, " One of the major unsolved problems of geology and evolution is the occurrence of diversified, multicellular marine invertebrates in Lower Cambrian rocks on all the continents and their absence in rocks of great age."
They conveniently omit the subtitle of the article, which reads, "A new hypothesis than can in some measure be tested explains its origin in terms of coastal sites."
I don't have access to that article, so I can't find out what that hypothesis is.
Could someone look it up for me? Here is the bibliographic information:
Axelrod, D. I. 1958. Early Cambrian marine fauna: A new hypothesis that can in some measure be tested explains its origin in terms of coastal sites. Science 128, 3314 (July 4): 7-9.
Edited by tomato, : No reason given.
Edited by tomato, : No reason given.

Replies to this message:
 Message 2 by Admin, posted 01-16-2010 4:49 AM tomato has not replied

Admin
Director
Posts: 13017
From: EvC Forum
Joined: 06-14-2002
Member Rating: 1.8


Message 2 of 2 (543202)
01-16-2010 4:49 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by tomato
01-16-2010 3:14 AM


I found the 1st page:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/pdf_extract/128/3314/7
For the rest you need someone with a subscription to Science magazine. Only you and moderators can post to this thread, but if someone has it they can send you an email or a PM.
AbE: I should add that because Axelrod published his paper more than a half century ago that it is far more important to understand how well his ideas have fared since then. Have his ideas been accepted into the mainstream of scientific thought, or are they at least still current?
Edited by Admin, : Add AbE.

--Percy
EvC Forum Director

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by tomato, posted 01-16-2010 3:14 AM tomato has not replied

Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024