Tag: genes
The Simple Life: Abiogenesis Gets Another Reality Check
When it comes to biological life, even the simplest single-celled organism is an astonishingly complex multi-part system.
New Long Story Short — Life’s Ingenious Code
The video asks, “Where in your experience do things like language, proofreading, nanomachines, and information-rich code come from? You know the answer.”
Has Russell Doolittle Provided an Evolutionary Explanation of the Blood Clotting Cascade?
Doolittle predicts, from an evolutionary framework, that jawless vertebrates would have a simpler blood clotting cascade than the human system.
A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning
The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide.
Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence
The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules.