Tag: Research
Could This Be the Oldest Evidence Yet for Multicellular Eukaryotes?
Not least when it comes to evolutionary biology, science and science reporting could do with more skepticism.
From Douglas Axe, a Sobering Take on the Limits of Genome Technology
Fueled by news of a closely guarded meeting at Harvard Medical School, the media abuzz are about the prospect of synthesizing a human genome.
What It Takes to Build a Nuclear Membrane
It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? Prokaryotes evolved into eukaryotes that segregated their DNA into a nucleus.
Local Fitness Landscape Mapped Out for Green Fluorescent Protein
The problem of protein evolution keeps getting worse.
How the Giraffe Got Its Looooong Neck
The paper in Nature Communications reporting this research fits very well with my nonrandom evolutionary hypothesis.