Tag: Cambrian News
Does Lightning-Fast Evolution Solve the Cambrian Enigma?
The authors of a paper in Current Biology present the problem of the Cambrian explosion — the rapid emergence of new forms of animal life — as it own solution.
To Create Cambrian Animals, Whack the Earth from Space
It’s surely not a coincidence that this season in science-journal publishing we’ve seen a variety of attempts to solve the enigma that Stephen Meyer describes in his new book, Darwin’s Doubt.
How to Solve the Cambrian Explosion: Turn Up the Evolutionary Speed Dial
Among the scientific papers out there that try to refute Stephen Meyer without naming him, here’s one that makes it all so simple.
Hox Genes to the Rescue?
Hox gene clusters are regulatory elements that switch on genes downstream in embryological development. When you swap one cluster with another, what happens? Evolution?
Complexity by Subtraction Was Weird Enough; Now, Complexity by Harmful Mutations
A new paper casts evolution as kind of a trampoline: organisms can bounce higher by jumping off the fitness peak.