Optimal designs, rugged fitness landscapes and the Texas sharpshooter fallacy

[Giltil (Gilbert Thill)]

@John_Harshman

@Giltil

From Bechly’s piece, I inferred that Müller has acknowledged that the fossil record documents non gradual forms of transition.

Yes. You were wrong about that. Bechly may have intended to imply such a thing, or he may just have inadvertently created that impression. But in any case Müller said nothing of the sort

How do you know that Muller didn’t say such a thing during his keynote at the conference New Trends in Evolutionary Biology at the Royal Society in London in November 2016? Were you there? It happens that Bechly was there and in the video below, starting at 5.37 min, he reports that Muller said what you say he didn’t say.

Gunter Bechly Explains What The Fossil Evidence Really Says