RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Source Read More Evolution News
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Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference
No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.” Source Read More Evolution News
A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology
Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Source Read…
Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm
John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Source Read More…
Tomorrow: Webinar with Maverick Scientist Forrest Mims
Prepared to be entertained — and inspired — by the man who describes his life as “one continuous science fair project.” Source Read More Evolution News
Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute
In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Source Read More Evolution News
What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?
Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Source Read More Evolution News
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered
Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Source Read More Evolution News
Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go
This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Source Read More Evolution News
The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era
Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered? Source Read More Evolution News