The evolutionary record of the genus Orcinus is scanty.
The human evolutionary record is quite well understood, and the evolution of the human brain shows a smooth process of growth over millions of years (http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/09/fun_with_homini_1.html).
Their method, termed statistical coupling analysis (Lockless and Ranganathan, 1999), does not use structural or physicochemical information but instead extracts information about essential patterns of amino acids from the evolutionary record.
After all, they argue, the evolutionary record shows plenty of lineages moving from complex structures to simpler ones, to say nothing of extinction — both of which throw cold water on the notion of teleology.
In fact, however, the human evolutionary record is now well enough understood in broad outline that most new discoveries fit comfortably into its general framework.
A common assumption is that whole-genome data will improve phylogenetic reconstructions, due to the complete evolutionary record within each species' genome and increased statistical power (34, 35).
The discontinuities in the evolutionary record troubled Darwin greatly and led him to suggest that the incompleteness of the fossil record was an important part of the explanation for discontinuity.
Evolution is particularly central to PA, which addresses the human evolutionary record and fossil discoveries, and cultural anthropology (CA), which covers the social organization of human cultural groups in the modern day.
In search of an evolutionary record of sorts, Mary F. Corey, an historian affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles, scrutinizes The New Yorker's output during the postwar years, when the magazine necessarily immersed itself in the era's defining issues: McCarthyism and the Cold War, the emerging civil rights consciousness and the increasing presence of women in public life.
We all know about Darwin and his theory of evolution which, despite gaping holes in the evolutionary record, still makes pretty damn good scientific sense.
