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Proteome Is Analogous to Language

A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›
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Photo: Molly Wagner, Swan Lake, by KCBalletMedia [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Chin Enigma

A scientific theory that on principle refuses to see the obvious is an achievement of which only humans are capable. Read More ›
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Photo: Monkey House, Bronx Zoo, in 2009, by Michael Gray via Flickr (cropped).

Understatement: According to Current Zoo Director, Caging Man “Shouldn’t Have Happened”

Hammering home the lesson about “our own evolutionary history” was exactly the purpose behind displaying and humiliating an African man with monkeys. Read More ›
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Image credit: Scutoids, by University of Seville, via Lehigh University.

Previously Unknown “Scutoid” Shape, Critical to Biology, Calls Architecture and Design to Mind

These sources should be more careful with their word choice. Someone could get the wrong idea. Read More ›
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Photo: Allegorical depictions of Astronomy and Sculpture, incorporated in spandrels, Bela Pratt, Library of Congress Building, c. 1896, by Carptrash [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma

Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.” Read More ›
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Image: NPCs (nuclear pore complex), from Origin: Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth, courtesy of Illustra Media.

How the Nucleus Guards Its Gates

Details of the nuclear pore complex, one of the largest and most complex protein systems in the cell, come into sharper focus as a team watches how it validates a messenger RNA. Read More ›
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Image credit: HypnoArt via Pixabay.

Subcellular Map of the Human Proteome Reveals “Highly Complex Architecture”

The degree of regulation and control required for this system is not only enormous, but contrary to evolutionary expectations. Read More ›

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