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Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›
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How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design

If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›
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Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA

Information is the stuff of life. Not limited to DNA, information is found in most biomolecules in living cells. Read More ›

Three Ways that Transposable Elements Demolish Evolutionary Theory

These “jumping genes” are segments of junk DNA that insert themselves at random in our genomes. That is the evolutionary interpretation. Read More ›

Peppered Moths, an Evolutionary Icon, Are Back

Readers of Evolution News are probably familiar with -- perhaps even bored with -- the classic story of peppered moths. Read More ›

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