Tag: biochemistry
Getting It Together: Tethers, Handshakes, and Multitaskers in the Cell
Running a cell requires coordination. How do molecules moving in the dark interior of a cell know how and when to connect? Protein tethers offer new clues.
Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price
Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form “play a significant role” in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions.
Design in the Grand Human Story
Two famous individuals who share the birthdate of February 12, 1809, are Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.
A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate
Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected?
Nature’s Wonder — A Tale of Two Scientists
Charles Darwin described an atrophied sensitivity to “grandeur” that he noted in himself.