Page 115 - The Errors the American National Academy of Sciences

The NAS's Errors in Portraying Common
Structures as Evidence of Evolution

nent and the islands around it split
away from Gondwanaland, the su-
percontinent that is supposed to The skull of a North American wolf
be the originator of Africa,
Antarctica, Australia, and South

America.) The interesting thing,
however, is that the skeletons of
the North American and
Tasmanian wolves are almost
identical. Their skulls resem- The skull of a Tasmanian wolf
ble each other particularly
closely.
Similarities such as
these, which evolutionary

biologists are unable to
accept as "homologous,"
show that similar organs are no evidence of de-
scent from a common ancestor. Even more interesting, the situation is
the exact reverse in some other living things. In other words, there are
living things that possess totally different organs despite being re-

ANorth
ATasmanian wolf American wolf

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