Posts by: Dr. Daniel Moran, Ph.D.

We could title this post, “Fossilized bees discovered to be, fossilized bees”.  Let me explain. Here is another “amazing story about evolution.  A story about how honeybees collected pollen and stored it in their honeypots (sacs on their legs) but appear to have eaten almost any nectar for their own food.  The bees were called […]

Here is another story sure to be a classic in Darwin’s Book of Fairy Tales.  In Science Daily, the title above leads the reader to think that something factual has been discovered: an answer to some mystery.  The headline reads this way: In the animal world, if several males mate with the same female, their […]

I have read some strange evolutionary fairy tales and many of them are hilarious.  Here are a few I recall: humans evolved a big brain because we ate more meat.  Grandmothers exist because it benefits the younger female to have more children.  Humans are hairless because it reduces parasitism.  Humans walk upright to carry food. […]

A new study(1) says that the enamel that coats your teeth first “evolved” in the skin.  Later, it “colonized” the teeth to give us, well, teeth.  Evidence?  Fish.  Yes, fish! How so?  Seems some fish produce an enamel-like substance that coats their scales.  Looking at the genome of some modern fish like the North American […]