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It’s the Severity or the Nature of the Mystery of Life’s Origin that Is Unacknowledged

Matthew Herron tweets, “Tell me more about this unacknowledged mystery!” and offers cases where scientists seemingly admitted the mystery of OOL. Read More ›
origin of life
Image source: Illustra Media, from Origin: Design, Chance, and the First Life on Earth.

Latest Acts in the Origin-of-Life Circus

Leading lights in origin-of-life research share their work and thoughts in a series of open-access articles about chemical evolution. Read More ›
sea turtle
Photo: An olive ridley sea turtle at the Long Beach Aquarium, Long Beach, CA.

Sea Turtles Swim Against the Darwin Current

Was there ever a more incongruous animal to imagine being a swimming champion? Read More ›
Hatchling
turtle
Photo: Sea turtle hatchling, from Living Waters, courtesy of Illustra Media.

Bats, Algae, Beetles, Turtles: Cool Design Tricks from Nature

Almost every phylum of life provides inspiration for engineers and inventors. Read More ›
snapdragons
anomalies
Photo: Snapdragons, by ARGHADIP DEY (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Living Fossils, Ancient Oxygen, Colorful Snapdragons: Anomalies Challenge Darwin’s Story

Enough anomalies can wreck a paradigm. Read More ›
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Cheaters Never Prosper? Sure They Do in Origin-of-Life Papers

How can scientists get away with publishing patent nonsense when it comes to the origin of life? Read More ›
Cryptobiotic soil crust
dirt
Photo: Cryptobiotic soil crust, by Nihonjoe (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design in the Dirt

If you’ve ever visited a desert, you may have noticed small clumpy mounds of crusty dirt in between the stretches of sand. Read More ›
Georgia Tech lake water
finches
Collecting bacteria from a lake near campus, by Qianna Xu, via Georgia Tech.

Darwin’s Finches: An Icon Gets Retouched

What can bacteria collected around a university campus tell us about adaptive radiation? Read More ›

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