Tag: Michigan State University
Viral Video Overstates the Evidence About Bacterial Evolution
Richard Lenski claims that his experiment provides “one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptations by natural selection you can imagine.”
Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment
Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid.
A Mousetrap for Darwin, and Another for Lenski
“There have been no mutations…identified that appear to be on their way to constructing elegant new molecular machinery of the kind that fills every cell.”
Ixnay on the Ambriancay Plosionexhay
Shhh — don’t say it. The geological event, well, not “event,” as in something that happened about 541 million years ago…we don’t talk that way anymore.
Listen: Michael Behe on a Citrate Death Spiral
Evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel forms.