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Intelligent Design in Dog Spit and in Rotten Wood

The design inference pivots on the presence of complex specified information, not on the human disgust response. Read More ›
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Population Genetics: What It Is and Why It Matters

Some have claimed that for humans the coalescence to one (or first coalescent) does not happen for well over a million years back in time, calling into question the idea of a single-couple human origin. Read More ›
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Design (But Not Design) Is the New Unifying Principle of Biology

The human eye is for seeing, whether or not it has any effect on genetics. However, this common-sense view has a problem. Read More ›
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Teleonomy and Evolution

Does a turtle swim ashore and lay eggs, or to lay eggs? Read More ›
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For Beleaguered Computer Simulations of Evolution, Can Co-Evolution Save the Day?

A familiar illustration of co-evolution is the relationship between honey bees and flowers. Read More ›
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Conservation of Information and Coevolution: New BIO-Complexity Article by Ewert and Marks

Biologists often claim that coevolutionary interactions, as with bees and flowers, can alter the fitness landscape to drive evolutionary changes. Read More ›
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Integrity in Science — A Facebook Dialogue

BIO-Complexity is not the first journal to be founded to advance a controversial case. Read More ›
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In BIO-Complexity, a New Model for Human Ancestry

In 2012 at a scientific conference I met a Swedish population geneticist named Ola Hössjer. Read More ›

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