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Just posted this to Pharyngula at the “An ontogeny of toilet drain behavior” thread Very nice from Dr Fleury to finally inform us of what L2/R2 could be. Never late to do well. The funny thing is that he commented here but haven’t send me a message about it! That’s weird. I’m asking for evidence [...]

Oops 090630

vincent fleury: By the way “I can has L2/R2″ is not a sentence Aha! this is not a sentence. I was waiting for this one since I read the paper. For Dr Fleury first step here, and second one here, both necessary to get the flavor. For everybody else, a puzzle served below [p22 col2 [...]

help a fellow hang himself

A funny side-effect of PZ Myers “An ontogeny of toilet drain behavior” was to bring Fleury’s theory within the range of one of the famous crackpot detectors, Suzan Mazur.

Now, that’s a clarification!

At least! Vekris : the antero-posterior construction of animals is bullshit, the induction of limbs by genes is bullshit, the colinearity of hox genes is bullshit, the selection of tetrapods by evolution is bullshit, the duplication of genes between hindlimbs and forelimbs is bullshit and you now know it, better than anyone else. Well, no, [...]

3.3 The limb field

This is the last part of “The genetics of vertebrate development”. Not much about most of the features of vertebrates were presented and this last part is about just “the limb field”. There is a lot of interesting papers out there one could read to learn about the subject.It would be really sad if all [...]

Stop the rotatives!

You foolish biologists, stop whatever you’re doing right now and learn from the wisdom of our physicist :

RTFM

RTFM Avoid embarrassment. What may happen when one is decided to have great theories about a subject he is not familiar with? Except all those irritating rhetorical turns that he produce1 sometimes there are great comical effects. I just managed not throwing my mouthful of coffee on my laptop (but I do have to clean [...]