Tag: genes
Hat Grab: Cells Take Extreme Measures to Rescue Their DNA
There’s a famous scene in an Indiana Jones movie where the hero barely makes it under a closing gate descending on him in an underground tunnel.
Research on Ancient DNA Could Test Predictions of Non-Darwinian Speciation Models
Independent groups of researchers (e.g., Hössjer et al. 2016), more or less skeptical of common ancestry, have suggested the alternative model of initial heterozygotic diversity.
Higgs Boson “God Particle” Found!
Let’s have a little respect here.
Not in the Genes: Embryonic Electric Fields
Although DNA is involved in specifying the amino acid sequences of proteins, other sources of information are needed to specify the three-dimensional structure of the embryo.
“No Designer Worth His Salt”? At the University of Chicago, Gregory Radick Critiques the Theology of Darwinism
It is more than a passing irony that the very book — the Origin of Species — widely supposed to have eliminated “the supernatural” from biology, in fact keeps theology and the supernatural alive by employing theological assumptions in its key arguments.