Galápagos_finch Type post Author Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Date November 25, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , beak size, birds, Darwin's Finches, droughts, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, Geospiza fortis, HMGA2, macroevolution, natural selection, Nature (journal), Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sangeet Lamichhaney, seeds, Sisyphean evolution, species, subjunctive Galápagos Finches — Some Contradictions Solved Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig November 25, 2020 Evolution 5 The authors offer a selectionist explanation, which is nevertheless uncertain. Note the repeated use of the subjunctive. Read More ›
Galápagos finch Type post Author Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Date November 24, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , alleles, beak size, Charles Darwin, Christian Science Monitor, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, evolution, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, genera, HMGA2, macroevolution, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Sisyphean evolution, speciation, species, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe Galápagos Finches — An “Exceptionally Strong Natural-Selection Event”? Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig November 24, 2020 Evolution 4 This is by no means an all-or-nothing selection (as the impression is sometimes given). Rather, the alleles are retained. Read More ›
Darwin's finches Type post Author Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Date November 17, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , Darwin's Finches, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, Harvard University, National Academy of Sciences, Nature (journal), Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sangeet Lamichhaney, speciation Are Galápagos Finches “Evolution in Action”? Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig November 17, 2020 Evolution 6 In a series of posts starting today, I offer some notes on the question of whether macroevolution is happening on the Galápagos Islands. Read More ›
1280px-Lehigh_University_Mountain_Top_Campus Type post Author Michael Behe Date March 25, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, ALX1, Amber Rice, birds, birth defects, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Evolution (journal), evolutionary biologists, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, Galápagos finches, genes, Greg Lang, Lake Victoria, Lehigh University, mutations, nucleotides, Peter Grant, proteins, Rosemary Grant, Sangeet Lamichhaney, yeast A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2 Michael Behe March 25, 2019 Evolution, Intelligent Design 12 Lang and Rice cite a number of articles to show that loss-of-function mutations are just a small minority of those found in studies of organisms. Read More ›
