Author: Evolution News
Demolishing Darwin’s Tree: Eric Bapteste and the Network of Life
Insiders know about the fundamental controversies in evolutionary theory, and are calling for some of the same reforms that advocates of intelligent design do.
Hox Genes to the Rescue?
Hox gene clusters are regulatory elements that switch on genes downstream in embryological development. When you swap one cluster with another, what happens? Evolution?
On the Medved Show Today, Stephen Meyer Will Discuss the Science that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Amarillo College in Texas recently canceled a course on intelligent design, citing fears that the class would be disrupted by atheist activists. What ever happened to academic freedom?
"As in Engineered Systems," Bacteria Control Both Supply and Demand
This is just one more example of evolution being treated as a magic wand that generates "exquisitely precise" mechanisms on demand.
Complexity by Subtraction Was Weird Enough; Now, Complexity by Harmful Mutations
A new paper casts evolution as kind of a trampoline: organisms can bounce higher by jumping off the fitness peak.