User:Tmtoulouse/Burgess Shale project/outline


 * Intro to Burgess Shale
 * What the current story of phyla diversification means for evolution
 * -Gould's Inverted tree
 * -Definition of species vs. phyla
 * -Self organizing systems and the origin of biological complexity


 * Creationist gibberish
 * -Intelligent design "injecting" complexity
 * -What it means be "all modern phyla" (substantial evolutionary differences between then and now)
 * -What "short time" really means


 * Walcott query and analysis
 * -Errors of assumption, orientation, depth, must fit existing phyla
 * -Gould's theory of diversification and why it created logical errors


 * Conway Morris reinterpretation
 * -Not "new tools" but "new ideas" as a source of revolution
 * -Story of Anomalocaris and why errors were made (force fitting into existing phyla)
 * -Story of Hallucigenia as relates to revolution of revolution


 * Problems with soft-body fossilization
 * -What the Burgess Shale actually is
 * -How its formation effects fossil information (no "every day life", and "jumbled")
 * -Other similar beds
 * -Someway to show just how cool this really is


 * Other cool things
 * -Analysis of fossil stomachs
 * -Conway Morris v. Gould in the last couple decades