When Darwinism Goes Begging: Metamorphosis as "Evolution's Freak Factory"

The New Scientist carries an article, "Metamorphosis: Evolution's Freak Factory," by a fellow named Frank Ryan, the same gentleman who recently wrote a popular book titled The Mystery of Metamorphosis: A Scientific Detective Story. The theory he advances in the article and the book is Donald Williamson's notion that metamorphosis is the result of hybridization between animals of separate phyla. The theory is not mainstream, and has been ridiculed even by hardcore Darwinists. The publication i...