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irreducible complexity
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Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

Since 2007, Hunt has been claiming to have refuted Michael Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity cannot arise by mindless evolutionary processes. Read More ›
Oxytricha trifallax
Ciliated Protozoa
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The Wonders of Genomic Acrobatics: Ciliated Protozoa as a Case Study

Explaining this sort of phenomenon by slight, successive modification, as Darwin envisaged, seems problematic. Read More ›
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Histone Code: A Challenge to Evolution, an Inference to Design

Histones are responsible for organizing and packaging the DNA of a cell nucleus into structural units known as nucleosomes. Read More ›
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast

All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›

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