Tag: DNA
The Stairway to Life Is Really a Cliff
Many of the “stairway steps” that have to be mounted for chemistry to become biology must, very inconveniently, happen all at once.
Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums
It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim.
Next Phase of ENCODE Finds MORE Functional Information in Genome “Junk”
The ENCODE project, now in its 17th year, ended its third phase with a new record of annotated elements in human and mouse genomes. Phase 4 is coming.
DNA as a Clue: How Intelligence Detects Information, and Creates It
Eric Anderson recommends an answer we can give to those who “dig their heels in” and disagree on what information is about.
In Cells and Whole Organisms, Repair Mechanisms Imply Foresight, Not Evolution
It takes foresight to make complex tools and procedures that can restore the functions of other tools. A blind process can only see the immediate present.