Tag: Lynn Margulis
Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Speciation
Swedish scientist Arne Müntzing used two plant species to make a hybrid that underwent chromosome doubling to produce hempnettle, a member of the mint family.
Slate on Evolution’s “Third Way”: The Sound of a Glacier Melting
I’m interested in “science as a cultural domain,” too. And here’s a great illustration of how the culture changes.
In Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner Argues that Cognition Is Foundational to Life
The evidence of purpose and design permeate life at every level, and this evidence presents ever increasing challenges to all theories of undirected evolution.
The Media Passes Hasty Legal Judgment on 2 of 3 New Science Education Bills
Reporters should be reticent to fix the legally significant label “creationist” to nascent science education bills.
On the Origin of Mitochondria: Reasons for Skepticism on the Endosymbiotic Story
Endosymbiotic theory essentially maintains that mitochondria arose by virtue of a symbiotic union of prokaryote cells.