#1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Goes Nuclear | Evolution News

[evograd (Blogging Graduate Student)]

That article is Evolution News’s favourite article of 2021? Wow. I’m not sure whether to feel honoured or insulted…

Here’s how I responded to Bechly when he first released the article back in April, I think it’s actually my most-liked comment on this forum:

The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear | Evolution News

It’s quite a strange article. Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles at Evolution News on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. When I read this first sentence, I assumed the article would be about some recent papers that had been published that added to the discussion of the topics of his previous articles (both from 2018). He’s writing in 2021, after all. Turns out the two updates are a response to a comment I made here on PS in 2018 (a month after his article came out in September), and a paper that came out in 2018. Why Bechly is responding 3 years later is a bit beyond me, but he seems to think it’s important. In my article (Bechly 2018b) about the iconic and enigmatic Ediacaran organism Dickinsonia , I showed why in spite of new biomarker evidence presented by Bobrovskiy et al. (2018), Dickinsonia is unlikely to be an animal. Such evidence-based skepticism is of course not greatly appreciated in Darwinist circles and provoked a response. …