Category: Convergent evolution

Theology According to P.Z. Myers

Over on The Panda’s Thumb blog, Darwinian apologist P.Z. Myers recently posted a pejorative laden critique of a review article by Casey Luskin. Luskin was responding to a recent New York Times article on a study purporting to show how certain genes in fish might hold an important clue on how fins turned to feet.… more

Four orders of insects deal with toxic plants the same way

“This is truly a remarkable level of evolutionary repeatability and suggests that evolving resistance to the plant toxin had very few effective options.” more

Does dark matter really exist?

“Dark matter stubbornly refuses to come out of the shadows. ” more

Core muscle proteins are present in sponges that lack true muscles

Should there be a new term for this type of evolution, of a faculty that could not obviously be of use to the life form that possesses it? But might be to others? more

Geckos gained and lost adhesive toepads many times?

The evasion, of course, is the idea that natural selection, acting on random mutation, somehow just produces the quality as needed, time and again, in the gecko evolutionary tree. more

Muscle cell myosin developed in unicellular organisms long before animals

Life forms do not randomly evolve solutions through natural selection; they are inwardly driven to converge on possible solutions in a wilderness of non-solutions. more