Tag: PNAS
Design Wonders in a Ladybird Beetle
Loved by children, one of the most common beetles turns out to have engineering marvels under its shields.
No Controversies About Darwinism? Try This One
A fierce battle over a core principle of Darwinian theory has raged for decades, but you wouldn’t know it.
Molecular Machines Reach Perfection
Does anything in nature achieve perfection? Yes, say Japanese researchers looking at an amazing molecular machine in a “primitive” life form.
Genetic Code Complexity Just Tripled
If natural selection would have a hard time modifying one codon, imagine it having to keep track of three at once.
The Fallacy of Evolutionary Advantage
Information-rich functional machines don’t pop into existence merely because their presence would be advantageous.