Tag: John Maynard Smith
Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show
We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.”
You Don’t Need a Calculator to Know Some Things Just Can’t Happen
This is the seventh part of my ongoing conversation about Undeniable with theistic evolutionist Hans Vodder.
The Unmistakable Imprint of Purpose — Response to a Theistic Evolutionist
We instantly spot the fruits of fertile imaginations by spotting their characteristic functional coherence. Dragonflies. Smartphones. Nuclear power plants.
Kin Selection Goes to Kindergarten
Cynics would call this kin selection or perhaps love of candy. I’d call it genuine love.
Corticosteroid Receptors in Vertebrates: Luck or Design?
Based on new research by Joseph Thornton and Sean Carroll and colleagues, it increasingly appears that either we are very lucky or we are intelligently designed.