Category: Evolution
When Enzymes Don’t Lie
New research published in Bio-Complexity calls into question some fundamental assumptions of neo-Darwinian theory and enzyme evolution.
Primate Phylogenetics Researchers Swinging from Tree to Tree
Researchers trying to create a primate phylogenetic tree are finding it isn’t as easy as they’d hoped.
Et tu, Pseudogenes? Another Type of “Junk” DNA Betrays Darwinian Predictions
Perhaps the mindset of Dawkins, Giberson, and Collins is setting us up to miss important biological functions of pseudogenes.
Is the Human Genome Garbage? Biologist Jonathan Wells Says No in New Book, The Myth of Junk DNA
A decade after his book challenged the Darwinian stories told to students and helped change textbooks in science classrooms around the country, Jonathan Wells is back to smash one of evolution’s last remaining icons: the myth of junk DNA.
Richard Lenski, “Evolvability,” and Tortuous Darwinian Pathways
The more that is learned about Darwin’s mechanism at the molecular level, the more ineffectual it is seen to be.