Tag: The Edge of Evolution
The Nobel Prize and Intelligent Evolution
The contrast between the evolutionary sterility of Lenski’s unintelligent Darwinian evolution and the evolutionary potency of Arnold, Smith, and Winter’s intelligent evolution is striking.
How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design
There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.”
Origin of Long-Distance Running — More Evolution by Breaking Things
A central problem for theories of unguided evolution has always been the challenge of building complex biological novelties.
Swamidass: Cancer “Can Innovate”
Cancer proves evolution only insofar as one forgets, or pretends not to know, what evolution is supposed to explain.
Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same
Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology.