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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727725.800-dinosaur-man-playing-creationists-at-their-own-game.html

Phil Senter. 2010
Using creation science to demonstrate evolution: application of a creationist method for visualizing gaps in the fossil record to a phylogenetic study of coelurosaurian dinosaurs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Article first published online: 17 JUN 2010 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02039.x

Abstract

It is important to demonstrate evolutionary principles in such a way that they cannot be countered by creation science. One such way is to use creation science itself to demonstrate evolutionary principles. Some creation scientists use classic multidimensional scaling (CMDS) to quantify and visualize morphological gaps or continuity between taxa, accepting gaps as evidence of independent creation and accepting continuity as evidence of genetic relatedness. Here, I apply CMDS to a phylogenetic analysis of coelurosaurian dinosaurs and show that it reveals morphological continuity between Archaeopteryx, other early birds, and a wide range of nonavian coelurosaurs. Creation scientists who use CMDS must therefore accept that these animals are genetically related. Other uses of CMDS for evolutionary biologists include the identification of taxa with much missing evolutionary history and the tracing of the progressive filling of morphological gaps in the fossil record through successive years of discovery.

Hah.

Linkkasinkin tämän jo aiemmin johonkin kreationismiketjuun. Hauskaa, että kreationistien käsitykset voidaan kumota heidän omilla menetelmillään.

Niinpä.
Lisäksi tämä on oiken mielenkiintoinen tapa visualisoida eri eläinten fossiiliaineistoa.

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Tässä näkyy siis tilanne vuoden 2009 jälkeen. Tutkimuksessa käytettin vain niitä dinosauruksia/lintuja joista tunnetaan kokonainen tai ainakin lähes kokonainen luuranko.