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Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)

Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity. Read More ›
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Mitochondria Promoted to Information Processing Systems

The label “powerhouses of the cell” was too simplistic for the many tasks performed every second by these computing, networking, signaling, regulating wonders. Read More ›
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Epigenetics Directs Genetics — And That’s a Problem for Darwinism

The ability to sequence genomes was a great accomplishment. But there is something over and above genes. Read More ›
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Grand Central Station and Beyond: Molecular Machines Visualized in 3-D

Cryo-electron microscopy is allowing cell biologists to see irreducibly complex molecular machines in three-dimensional glory. Read More ›
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Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›
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Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever

Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described. Read More ›
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Evolution’s “Can’t Get There from Here” Problem

Scientists have experimented extensively on the classic lab animal, the fruit fly, mutating its genes in every way they can. Read More ›
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Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›
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On Being Human — A Reflection

Evolutionary biologist David Barash is a man on a mission. He wants to make sure that we all know we are only human, and that means we are only animal. Read More ›
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Chemical Affinity, Motor Proteins: Good Questions from a Reader

About the movement of organelles: There are molecular motor proteins that haul them around! Read More ›

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