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War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming

Nathan Lents says it doesn’t make a lot of sense” to think of sex in humans as binary. Colin Wright says, “Stop misleading the public.” Read More ›
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A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA

Did you get that? “Cake,” I believe, is supposed to mean life. So obviously on earth we have cake. Read More ›
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Centrioles Revealed as Part of a Large Signaling Network 

What molecular structure forms cartwheels, is architecturally beautiful, and is vital for cell division? Read More ›
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On Human-Chimp Genetic (Dis)Similarity, Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

Would anyone know that the 1 percent icon has finally fallen, if we hadn't broken the story? It seems not. Read More ›
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Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different

This number is only looking at the non-sex chromosomes. When you look at the sex chromosomes, the differences seem to be even greater. Read More ›
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Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›
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A Cell Makes “Decisions” — But if It’s Following a Material Blueprint, How Does It Do That?

Watching cells under a microscope, we sense familiarity with their challenges when they face puzzles. How is this possible if their nature is strictly physical? Read More ›
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Transcriptional Hierarchies Exhibit Recurring Design Logic and Challenge Evolution

A transcriptional hierarchy is a regulatory system in which genes are expressed in a specific ordered sequence. Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›
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How Motor Proteins Power Eukaryotic Cell Division

Could the components of the eukaryotic cell division process have arisen through a gradual, unguided process? Read More ›

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