Category: Evolution
Mission Impossible: Trying to Explain the Feather Without Teleology
“It may seem strange to consider the fact that you, as a mammal, have all the known genes required to pattern a feather, and yet you do not look like Big Bird.”
How Does Modern Medicine Depend on Darwinism?
The question is prompted by a review in the Washington Post of E.O. Wilson’s latest.
There’s a Gene for That…Or Is There?
A CNN headline claims, “Blame genetics for bad driving, study finds.” “Genes for,” however, are dangerous words in genetics.
From a 2011 Paper on Bacterial Flagella, Little Comfort for Darwinists
An email correspondent pointed out a paper to me, "Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors," published by the European Molecular Biology Organization.
For Overcoming Students’ Intuitions of Design, The American Biology Teacher Suggests Employing Evo-Devo
I just finished reading an article by Kostas Kampourakis and Alessandro Minelli, “Evolution Makes More Sense in the Light of Development.”