25Feb 2022 by Post

No “Hopeful Monster,” Flower Demonstrates Evolution by Subtraction

APETALA3-3, Aquilegia coerulea, biology, Biston betularia, Chaetodipus intermedius, Charles Darwin, Colorado, Colorado blue columbine, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic information, Harrison Tasoff, hopeful monster, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Life Sciences, Michael Behe, petals, positive selection, saltation, Scott Hodges, sepals, spurs, Stephen Meyer, UC Santa Barbara, Zachary Cabin, Zombie Science
Evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, noticed something peculiar about the columbines in a region of Colorado. Source
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22Feb 2022 by Post

Will Earth BioGenome Project Vindicate Darwin?

agriculture, Big Data, bioindustry, biology, Canis familiaris, chihuahua, China, conservation, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwinism, Earth BioGenome Project, ecology, eukaryotes, Evolution, genomes, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Mark Blaxter, mastiff, Medicine, Paul Chien, phylogenetics, PNAS, sequencing, species, Sweden, United States
Compare the latest project to sequence everything to other megaprojects that may or may not answer evolutionary questions. Source
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18Feb 2022 by Post

New Study in Nature Showing “Non-Random” Mutation Spells Trouble for Neo-Darwinism

Arabidopsis thaliana, biology, cabbage, Darwin-skeptics, DNA, Evolution, gene-coding DNA, genome, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Life Sciences, mustard, mutation, mutation rate, Nature (journal), non-random mutation, proteins, random mutations, Research, thale cress, waiting-time problem
The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection. Source
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15Feb 2022 by Post

Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Natural Selection

Artificial Selection, Bernard Kettlewell, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Evolution, Galápagos Islands, Hugo de Vries, industrial melanism, Life Sciences, Macroevolution, Microevolution, mutations, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, peppered moths, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Theodosius Dobzhansky
When the drought ended and the rains returned, however, food was plentiful, and the average beak size returned to normal. Source
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14Feb 2022 by Post

Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry

biology, cats, chimps, common design, DNA, DNA polymerases, DNAPs, embryos, Emily Reeves, Evolution, evolutionary transitions, fossil record, genes, genomes, homology, horses, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, Life Sciences, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, phylogenetic trees, proteins, Richard Dawkins, students, teachers, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Tree of Life, Zombie Science
The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat. Source
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10Feb 2022 by Post

For Darwin Day, Topoisomerase Webinar With Biochemist Joe Deweese

amino acid sequences, animation, biology, Casey Luskin, cell duplication, Center for Science & Culture, Charles Darwin, chromosomes, complex and specified information, Darwin Day, DNA, enzymes, Events, Freed-Hardeman University, Intelligent Design, Joe Deweese, Life Sciences, molecular machines, replication, topoisomerase II, transcription, YouTube videos
This webinar will premiere a new molecular machine animation on the topoisomerase enzyme. Source
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27Jan 2022 by Post

Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution

algorithms, Angular Head Velocity, Animal Algorithms, ants, backtracking, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, calculus, Cambrian phyla, casting, Darwinian theory, Eric Cassell, goldfish, hardware, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Life Sciences, mammals, Nature (journal), Nature Communications Biology, navigation, Neuron (journal), neurons, olfaction, phyla, PNAS, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, sea turtles, software, University of Toronto
Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive. Source
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10Jan 2022 by Post

Myth-Making and Malthus

"survival of the fittest", An Essay on the Principle of Population, biology, Capitalism, cosmogenic myth, Economics, Evolution, Kathryn Hughes, laissez-faire, Life Sciences, magpie, Michael Denton, mythopoeisis, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe, William Willis
After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy. Source
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