Tag: living systems
Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?
Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century.
Brian Miller: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer
If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good an engineer was the one behind those living systems?
Revolution as Scientists Treat Living Systems as Engineered
This sea change in perspective is rapidly accelerating progress in experimental biology.
Denton: Animal Body Types as “Adaptive Masks”
These recurrent forms extend from original “primal patterns,” much as argued by such 19th-century opponents of Darwinism as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz.
Brian Miller: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Engineering in the Biological Sciences”
Dr. Miller takes on a number of specific examples including the celebrated eyeless cavefish, which he “used to think was an absolute win for microevolution.”