Comparing Museums of Natural History with Natural History
FIG S: The Hard Facts Wall from
the California Academy of Sciences exhibit in San Francisco, CA Life
Through Time: The Evidence for Evolution
FIG A: Philosophical naturalism
as exemplified in the Hard Facts Wall from the California Academy of Sciences
exhibit in San Francisco, CA Life Through Time: The Evidence for Evolution.
FIG B: Fossil data applied to
the philosophical framework of Fig A. (Hard Facts Wall from the California
Academy of Sciences exhibit in San Francisco, CA Life Through Time: The
Evidence for Evolution)
FIG C: Empirical data of the Hard
Facts Wall after removal of materialistic philosophy with Occam's razor.
FIG D: Framework for theory of
Macrostasis based upon the pervasive patterns of natural history. "Stasis
is data." -- Stephen Jay Gould, "Opus 200," Natural History,
August 1991, p. 16
FIG I: The origin of the phyla:
the fossil evidence
Contrary to both Darwinian gradualism and punctuated equilibria theory,
the vast majority of phyla appear abruptly with low species diversity. The
disparity of the higher taxa precedes the diversity of the lower taxa.
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