Category: Plants
This just in: Plants are people too – biologists
| November 9, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
We thought they were kidding too, okay? But … more
Evolution: Clocks vs. rocks – if clocks win, what does it mean for plants?
| November 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Plants |
Molecular clocks vs. fossils: Clocks say plants are earlier than rocks do. more
Carefully preserved jumping gene in corn shows how intelligent design produces massive changes
| October 10, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
The benefit of a tall stock with single ears of abundant kernels is evident forhumans (and incidentally agricultural pests), not to teosinte. more
Geneticist W.-E. Loennig replies to Darwinist Nick Matzke: Which is more important: Darwin or facts?
| September 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Genetics, News, Plants |
Why does Nick not answer Nachtwey’s questions on the evolution of Utricularia’s trap? Suction in half a millisecond: How did the trap become watertight and functional as a suction trap with all its synorganized anatomical and physiological details by a series of random ‘micromutations’ with slight or even invisible effects on the phenotype (Mayr)? more
Remember that Darwin-eating plant? Now threatening to eat Nick Matzke …
| September 3, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
W.-E. Loennig: Matzke still doesn’t seem to have carefully studied my extensive paper yet, but he is still complaining that others know nothing on that topic and keeps on talking some nonsense promoting some half-baked ideas. more
Carnivorous plants: After eating Darwin, they couldn’t resist further culinary adventures
| August 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
Can you blame them? He was delicious and it was fun. more
Wood ten million years older than thought?
| August 11, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, Plants |
In “Oldest Known Wood” (The Scientist , August 11, 2011) Jef Akst reports that “Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed” (No kidding!): … two relatively small fossils provide new clues, and suggest that wood evolved at least 10 million years earlier than previously documented, according… more
Why call it a phylogenetic tree … ?
| May 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, Plants |
… when it gets uprooted this often? From ScienceDaily (“Ancestors of Land Plants Revealed”, May 2, 2011), It was previously thought that land plants evolved from stonewort-like algae. However, new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that the closest relatives to land plants are actually conjugating green algae such… more
No, NOT coffee!! A soothing tea at this time of night …
| April 4, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Plants |
See this beautiful image of a flowering plant from the Cretaceous era. It killed the dinosaurs? … Mmmm … probably not. I spent some time thinking how to arrange these branches in a vase, had they survived, and then decided, no: Outdoor container gardening, overwinter in cool greenhouse. May need support. (= Will need support,… more
Is this evidence for design in plants?
| April 4, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design, Plants |
At ScienceDaily (March 30, 2011), we learn that “Like Products, Plants Wait for Optimal Configuration Before Market Success”: Just as a company creates new, better versions of a product to increase market share and pad its bottom line, an international team of researchers led by Brown University has found that plants tinker with their design… more