User:Tmtoulouse/Burgess Shale project/outline

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  • 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