Tag: fitness landscape
Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory
The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness.
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.
New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information
William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target.
Advances in Biology Discredit Argument that Cooption Can Explain Irreducible Complexity
One of most popular attempts at explaining the flagellum via cooption was developed by Nicholas Matzke.
Protein Mutations Are Highly Coupled
This is a clear falsification of an evolutionary expectation expressed across many years, and widely held by a consensus of experts.