Tag: University College London
Possible Cave “Proto-Writing” Challenges Slow Evolution of Human Consciousness
London-based wood carving conservator Ben Bacon has, with academic colleagues, shaken up Ice Age paleontology.
Joana Xavier, Skepticism About Design, and a Fable About a Gray Parrot with an iPad
Xavier, of University College London, is a young origin-of-life researcher who has steadily pursued questions of central importance.
Game Over? Nick Lane Wants Another Inning
Michael Behe described how he attended a conference to hear Nobel laureate John Walker, the world’s expert on ATP synthase, explain how it might have evolved.
A Mystery: Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Monomers
In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date.”
Scientists Reveal Bacterial T4SS “Biogenesis Machinery”
With cryo-electron microscopy, scientists have zoomed in on a molecular machine that is very different from the Type III Secretion System.