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Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Read More ›
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Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Read More ›
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Photo: A mouse embryo, by National Institutes of Health (NIH) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Inside the Cell: The Closer You Look, the More Remarkable It Is

According to Dr. Ann Gauger, this order may point beyond neo-Darwinian processes. Read More ›
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The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness 

Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process. Read More ›
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In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law

As Turner says, homeostasis is an exceedingly strange idea. Yet without homeostasis there is no life. Read More ›

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