Owen’s particular version of structuralism actually rejects universal common descent. However, you could argue that his model is just a different model of universal common descent since his theory suggests that invertebrates are precursors of vertebrates according to the article:
This framework does not assume a sexually reproducing ancestral “kind”; it treats early or stem lineages (e.g., modular microbial architectures) as recurring design components within broader constraint governed state spaces.
The current version may have Fuz Rana and Hugh Ross’s names on it, but…
RTBsupporter has claimed that:
RTBsupporter has also said that:
The ‘authors’ names are annotated “on behalf of the Reasons to Believe Scholars Community”
The downloadable files have had various author names in the document properties, including “Meer Kat”, but not either Fuz Rana or Hugh Ross.
Meerkat has previously asked about the possibility and ethics of sending articles to journals under some-one else’s name.
and
Meerkat was blathering on about his universal design theory incorporating Owen’s archetypes, virus origins and collapsing wave functions for several years before the first version of this was uploaded to OSF.
So despite the paper’s attribution, it’s likely that RTBsupporter aka Meerkat bears far more responsibility for the paper’s contents than either Fuz Rana or Hugh Ross.
