What Can Embryos Tell Us About Evolution?

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Facts of Evolution (Chapter 6): What Human Embryos Reveal About Evolution.

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EVOLUTION IS REAL SCIENCE:

1. Does The Evidence Support Evolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1R8w_QEvEU
2. Vitamin C And Common Ancestry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2N2lbb3dk
3. Are We Descended From Viruses?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsWZCSMSSs
4. Does The Fossil Record Support Evolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVoXZPOCGk
5. Where Are The Transitional Forms?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTbrHg8KGQ

FACTS OF EVOLUTION:

1. Introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43SskX-pEqA
2. Universal Common Descent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0UGpcea8Zg
3. Good Design, Bad Design
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mtr3Cum74A
4. Speciation And Extinction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5kumHLiK4A
5. How Fast Is Evolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XgeSi1EGkU
6. What Can Embryos Tell Us About Evolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAZmLYWEPGk
7. The Molecules Of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJFI3ChOUU
8. Molecular Evolution: Genes And Proteins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7BE3mEb64
9. Retroviruses And Pseudogenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZvTmgCk1Lo

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Embryo drawing refers to any representation of the illustration of embryos in their developmental sequence. In plants and animals, an embryo develops from a zygote, the single cell that results when an egg and sperm fuse during fertilization.

In animals, the zygote divides repeatedly to form a ball of cells, which then forms a set of tissue layers that migrate and fold to form an early embryo. Images of embryos provide a means of comparing embryos of different ages, and species. To this day, embryo drawings are made in biology undergraduate developmental biology lessons.

Comparing different embryonic stages of different animals is a tool that can be used to infer relationships between species, and thus biological evolution. This has been a source of quite some controversy, both now as in the past.

A biologist who pioneered in this field was Ernst Haeckel. By comparing different embryonic stages of different vertebrate species, he formulated the Recapitulation theory. This theory states that an animal's embryonic development follows the exact same sequence as the sequence of its evolutionary ancestors.

Haeckel's work and the ensuing controversy linked the fields of developmental biology and comparative anatomy into comparative embryology. From a more modern perspective, Haeckel's drawings were the beginnings of the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo).

The study of comparative embryology aims to prove or disprove that vertebrate embryos of different classes (e.g. mammals vs. fish) follow a similar developmental path due to their common ancestry.

Such developing vertebrates have similar genes, which determine the basic body plan. However, further development allows for the distinguishing of distinct characteristics as adults.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_drawing
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[Noosha95]

Intriguing! :)

[Uenbg]

Why doesn't he mention Haeckel? Why doesn't anyone in the evolution crowd?

Look it up.

[EvolutionDismantled]

@drunkenscotsman This is parallel to saying that rearranging a 50 page book will result in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Entirely new paragraphs/pages/volumes must be added. In the same way, entirely new genes coding for entirely new structures must arise.

[drunkenscotsman]

@EvolutionDismantled A mutation is a change in information - specifically new information - that the genome must now use. When one nucleotide in a base pair mutates, it changes the base pair and adds new information at the expense of old information. How can creationists not understand that simple, elemantary idea? I actually facepalm whenever I hear this argument. All it is based on is a semantic difference in how you use the word "information" compared to scientists. Give it up already.

[directorygod]

Amazing,.. Good Video!!

[IvanderHaisley]

@EvolutionDismantled oh, i thought you watched the retard video ? .. it says no beneficial mutation has ever been found ...

[EvolutionDismantled]

@IvanderHaisley what?

[EvolutionDismantled]

@IvanderHaisley /watch?v=wkNmfA09cGg

and there ARE beneficial mutations - only they are not information gaining

[IvanderHaisley]

@EvolutionDismantled not one beneficial mutation aye ??? explain nylonase