Dr Pierre-Paul Grasse (editor of the 28-volume "Traite de Zoologie", ex-president of the Academie des Sciences, etc.) is considered to have been one of the...
A selection of recent Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) Fossil discovery upsets theories on human origins WASHINGTON, July 4 — Three distinct groups of...
[JJ & JR Kineman, Bear Mountain Institute] Abstract: "The definition of life and organism must account for not only its physical properties and processes but...
The following experiments are mentioned in "The Great Evolution Mystery" by Gordon Rattray Taylor (Secker & Warburg, London) but without any citations. I'm...
A selection of recent Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) Ancient rock points to life's origin The continents were moving across the face of the Earth much...
[Shapiro, J. Biol. Phys., '02] Abstract: "Physicists question whether there are "universals" in biology. One reason is that the prevailing theory of biological...
[Hall, PNAS, '91, PDF file] Abstract: "A previous study has demonstrated that adaptive missense mutations occur in the trp operon of Escherichia coli. In this...
{Kull (Estonia), Cybernetics and Human Knowing, '00] Abstract: "According to H. F. Osborn, one of the three authors of 'Baldwin effect', adaptive evolution may...
[Whitfield, Nature Science Update, Jul '01] "The evolution of hormones has seen long periods when little happened, interspersed with bursts of activity, new...
A selection of recent Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) Ancient skull challenges human origins A team of researchers in central Africa say they've...
'ID Will Win in the End' is William Dembski's contribution to this month's Readers' Forum ('Sparks Fly Over Intelligent Design', Jul/Aug, '02) of "Research...
Ok, I can accept that you disagree with Evolution, but just what are you suggesting in this post? Especially with the closing quote: "A hybrid between a...
... are ... compatibility ... herbivorous ... a ... support ... Hi Rich, The quote is that given for the lecture at: http://www.boxmind.com/lectures/ I've...
1) Dart, R. A. Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa Nature 115, 195–199 (1925) When Dart, an anatomist from South Africa, reported the...
Ahhh... Well....forgive my impertenence. I am so used to fighting 'the good fight' for evolution against IDers and creationists that my post to you was pretty...
... post ... Hi Rich, I remember posting about the pentadactyl pattern just about everywhere! At that time (approx 2 years ago) I was in an 'exploratory...
A selection of recent Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) First synthetic virus created Scientists have assembled the first synthetic virus. The US ...
... herbivorous ... Actually, evolution *does* cut and paste if you look at Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan's "Aquiring Genomes theory" by symbiogenisis. Read ...
... Margulis ... Read ... Hi Davin, Thanks for the info! It sounds an interesting book (and I'm particularly intrigued by what "symbiotic merger" might be) but...
[Jeremy Mohn, Web Article] "The gap between eukaryotes, cells with nuclei, and prokaryotes, cells which lack nuclei, is considered by many biologists to be the...
I would like to begin collecting some of the more 'popular objections', partially for the benefit of visitors searching the message database, but also to...
[Joron, Mallet, Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13: 461-466, '98] "Visual mimicry is a textbook case of natural selection because it is both intuitively...
[Valentine et al., Dev. bio., '99] Summary: "The Cambrian explosion is named for the geologically sudden appearance of numerous metazoan body plans (many of...
[Erwin et al., American Scientist, '97] Abstract: "For its first 3 billion years on earth, life was no larger or more sophisticated than a single cell. All of...
[Lemonick, Dorfman, Time, Jul '02] "In life, the creature probably resembled a chimpanzee more than anything else. It moved through a lakeside landscape of...
Discussion on "institutional racism" prompted a discussion on "institutional discrimination against persons with special needs." This set me wondering about...
... on ... This set ... behavior." IS ... me on ... Hi RM, Obviously I am only expressing a personal opinion but I do feel labels such as 'racism', 'bullying',...
A selection of recent Press Releases and News Headlines: 1) Pterosaur skull suggests sex and violence New research on a giant fossilised pterosaur skull...
[MacLaren, Trends in Genetics, May '99] "In the 1940s and 1950s, Waddington put forward his theories of canalization and genetic assimilation. These provided a...
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