Category: Convergent evolution
Theology According to P.Z. Myers
| May 9, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under 'Junk DNA', Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
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
| July 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, News |
“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?
| July 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, Cosmology, News |
“Dark matter stubbornly refuses to come out of the shadows. ” more
Core muscle proteins are present in sponges that lack true muscles
| July 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, News |
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?
| July 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, News |
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
| June 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
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