Tag: biosphere
Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature.
Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare
So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described?
Meyer: Why the Return of the God Hypothesis?
What is the “God hypothesis”? What happened to it, and when, so that it needed to stage a dramatic return?
Plastic-Eating Microbes — “Rapid Evolution” May Not Be Darwinian at All
Environmental scientists warn frequently that the world is drowning in plastic. Here is some unexpected good news.
Getting to the Roots of Design
Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends.