Evolution in the News - November 2016
by Do-While Jones

Something to Chew On

Even the evolution of something as simple as the jaw is a problem.

Here’s a recent example of evolutionists believing something even though they know it doesn’t make sense from a scientific point of view.

On page 334 of this issue, Zhu et al. report the discovery of a placoderm from Qujing in Yunnan, China, that fills a big gap in our understanding of how vertebrate jaws evolved. 1

The editors of Science admit there was “a big gap in our understanding of how vertebrate jaws evolved,” but evolutionists believed it anyway.

The Entelognathus jaw pattern posed a conundrum for evolutionary biologists. 2

You can use the footnote links if you want to read the details. Here are some key points:

The discovery of Entelognathus revealed the presence of maxilla, premaxilla, and dentary, supposedly diagnostic osteichthyan bones, in a Silurian placoderm. However, the relationship between these marginal jaw bones and the gnathal plates of conventional placoderms, thought to represent the inner dental arcade, remains uncertain. 3

This finding upends the traditional belief that the two types of jaw were nonhomologous and sheds light on the evolution of the complex maxilla, a key component of diversification across many modern taxa, including humans. 4

We predict that future discoveries from the Xiaoxiang fauna will continue to fuel the debate about jawed vertebrate origins and challenge long-held beliefs about their evolution. 5

Despite what the article headlines say, they still don’t know how jaws evolved.

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Footnotes:

1 John A. Long, Science, 21 Oct 2016, “The first jaws”, pp. 280-281, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6310/280.full
2 ibid.
3 Min Zhu, Science, 21 Oct 2016, “A Silurian maxillate placoderm illuminates jaw evolution”, pp. 334-336, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6310/334.full
4 ibid.
5 ibid.