Tag: citrate
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.
Citrate Death Spiral
Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski and collaborators have just published a terrific new paper.
The Ultimate Recycler
Right now, within your bodies this little engine is cranking away. Without this machine, oxygen-dependent life could not exist.
Thanks, Professor Lenski, the LTEE Is Doing Great!
Lenski agrees that the beneficial mutations seen in his Long Term Evolution Experiment are overwhelmingly degradative or loss-of-function ones.
A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1
Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data.