Tag: bacteria
Optimized Insect Designs — via Evolution?
Cicadas and dragonflies use an exquisitely engineered “bed of nails” on their wings to disarm and neutralize bacteria.
Listen: Michael Behe on a Citrate Death Spiral
Evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel forms.
Intricate, Optimized Designs in Insects Beg a Question
The ingenious inventions found in insects summon us to ask: How did these small organisms get them?
Citrate Death Spiral
Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski and collaborators have just published a terrific new paper.
Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…
“How close are we to understanding the origin of life?” a radio moderator asked atheist biologist Richard Dawkins.