Tag: Research
Secrets of the Plant “Intranet” Are Coming to Light
Plants have an elaborate distributed communications network that keeps all the parts informed of what’s going on outside.
Researchers Proclaim: Instant Animals by Chance
Hype notwithstanding, both from scientists and the media, it takes more than a random mutation to build an animal.
Non-Adaptive Order: An Existential Challenge to Darwinian Evolution
If many of the taxa-defining homologs are non-adaptive, the whole Darwinian enterprise breaks down entirely.
More on How Microbes Make Earth Habitable
Here are further examples of interactions between geology and microbes that make our planet a nice place to live.
On the Origin of Chins
Here’s an evolutionary puzzle I had never thought about. Why do we have chins?