From Biologic Institute, “Giving Evolution A New Meaning”
| January 29, 2013 | Posted by News under News |
From the Biologic Institute blog:
What do Han Chinese characters and proteins have in common? Both can be thought of as two- or three-dimensional functional shapes. Change their shapes significantly and you change what they mean or do.
For proteins the flow of functional information goes like this:
  protein coding sequence ⇒ 3-D structure ⇒ function
If a code could be devised that specifies Han character traces in vector space, then the Han character set would have a similar information flow:
 Han coding sequence ⇒ 2-D structure ⇒ meaning
And suddenly all the parallels between genetic code and language become a rich environment in which to test evolutionary scenarios.
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http://www.plosone.org/article.....ne.0002246
I love that you guys are using github!
https://github.com/biologic/stylus
Will it be a rewrite, or is the plan to build a web front-end to the existing code?
podcast РOn this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with geneticist Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard L̦nnig about his recent article on the evolution of dogs. Casey and Dr. L̦nnig evaluate the claim that dogs somehow demonstrate macroevolution.
http://intelligentdesign.podom.....1_14-08_00