Tag: morphogenesis
Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.”
Diatoms and the Mystery of Morphogenesis
From code to art: how does a linear set of instructions result in a beautifully crafted pattern? Diatoms do it, and scientists are struggling to figure out how.
Morphogenesis: Coding for Shape
How do you get a 3-D shape from a linear code? That is the puzzle of morphogenesis.
Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features
In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’”
#7 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Thousands of New Genes Needed for the Origin of Animals
This is nothing short of a spectacular vindication of Stephen Meyer’s perspective in Darwin’s Doubt.