Tag: mutations
Brian Miller: Rarity and Isolation of Proteins in Sequence Space
Dr. Miller reports on research showing that the probability of a protein continuing to work after each mutation drops precipitously.
To Dance at Two Weddings: Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest
According to a proverb, you can’t dance at two weddings at the same time. Dr. Kojonen believes that you can.
An Allegory of Denial
On a distant world lived people in a society not unlike our own, except in one interesting way.
No. 5 Story of 2023: Peer-Reviewed Paper Finds “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”
They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.”
Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”
Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast!