Tag: science
The Republican Brain vs. Science Left Behind
One day recently, I came into my office to find that two newly published books I had ordered arrived on the same day.
The Molecular “Clutch” of the Dynein Motor Protein
If you drive an automobile with a manual transmission, the clutch pedal is of course the one to the left of the brake and the gas.
Common Ancestry: Wikipedia vs. the Data
Consider a recent paper in Annual Review of Genetics which observes that huge percentages of eukaryotic genes tell conflicting stories about common descent.
Gene Duplication and the Origin of Novel Biological Information: A Case Study of the Globins
We are well acquainted by now with the most fashionable neo-Darwinian model for the origin of novel biological information: gene duplication and divergence.
Design Inference vs. Design Hypothesis
On a bright December day in 1994 in Green Valley, Arizona, the term “design inference” hit me.