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