by Anthony | Feb 15, 2015 | Countering Mumblebard
Buttongrass as a pyrotechnic engineer. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “Through evolutionary time, fire has controlled the structure of vegetation, determining whether a landscape is covered in grasses or trees. Indeed, under climates capable of supporting large plants, the...
by Anthony | Jan 15, 2015 | Countering Mumblebard
Prof. Mumblebard claims: “Archaeopteryx has stood the test of time as a primitive bird and as proof of the evolution of dinosaurs into birds. Although this particular genus is unlikely to be ancestral to modern birds, it represents the sole clade of avian...
by Anthony | Jan 15, 2015 | Countering Mumblebard
Is Müllerian mimicry a misnomer and a non-concept in Lepidoptera? Prof. Mumblebard claims: “Coexisting butterflies with warning colouration tend to resemble each other even where all the mimicking species are genuinely noxious to predators. These Müllerian...
by Anthony | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog
Tracking down the testudines missing from a whole continent demands plodding logic rather than leaping conclusions. Land tortoises[1] are fully terrestrial, mainly plant-eating members of the Order Testudines. Oddly, Australia – despite having an impressive radiation...
by Anthony | Jan 1, 2015 | Blog
Large felids are watchable, perhaps mesmerising. And yet it has gradually dawned on us, during about three decades of watching the lion, watching biologists watch the lion, and watching the scientific literature on the lion: some obvious points about the appearance of...
