Tag: bacteria
New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”
The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion.
Astrobiology: Searching for the Origin of Life, In All the Wrong Places
Astrobiologists think they may have found where life came from — cyanide in meteorites!
PLOS Genetics Asks: “What Is a Mutation?”
What if there is genuine directionality in mutation? An important paper addresses the subject.
How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight
He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.”
Try This Tree of Life Instead of Darwin’s
Take a look at a plant that takes nothing but gives everything. Why should it deliver so much good to so many?