Tag: amino acid
Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code
This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA).
Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence
I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein.
Puppy Dog Eyes for Darwin
A study in PNAS has gotten tons of affectionate press, probably because puppies are so darned cute.
Cited to Attack Darwin Devolves, Study Devolves on Close Inspection
Pointing out the review’s many failings will be the work of multiple articles. Let’s start by zeroing in on just one segment.
Advances in Biology Discredit Argument that Cooption Can Explain Irreducible Complexity
One of most popular attempts at explaining the flagellum via cooption was developed by Nicholas Matzke.