Archive: First Land Animals, Lateral Gene Transfer, and Beetle Fans
April 26, 2024
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Gene Sharing Is Not Evolution
January 9, 2023
Microbes in the ocean share genes in tiny bubbles, but where did the genes come from?
Information Sharing Is Not Evolution
October 14, 2022
Scientists are finding that organisms can use libraries of functional information obtained from one another.
No, These Findings Do Not Support Evolution
August 1, 2018
Evolutionary biologists keep giving Darwin credit for discoveries that actually militate against his theory.
How Explanatory Is Evolutionary Theory?
October 18, 2014
Darwinians make big boasts about their theory as the central organizing principle in biology, but what does it actually explain?
Homage to Diatoms
June 19, 2014
Twenty percent of the air you are breathing came from tiny animals living in crystal cathedrals.
Bacteria Take Up Dead DNA, Scrambling Evolution
November 20, 2013
It's not just horizontal gene transfer that can obscure evolutionary history. Scientists have found bacteria recycling fragmented DNA from long-dead organisms. The impact on evolutionary theory could be substantial.
Is This Plant Really 30,000 Years Old?
February 20, 2012
A plant said to be 30,000 years old has been brought to life in Russia. A team resurrected a fruit from a rodent burrow in Siberian permafrost, getting it to grow into a whole plant that produces viable seeds. This is now the oldest age claim, by an order of magnitude, for plant material made to live again. Other scientists are startled that plant material could remain viable for so long, since cells have to repair their DNA continually. Other botany news bring different problems to evolutionary theory.
Soil Provides Library of Antibiotic Resistance
January 19, 2006
Genetic information that confers antibiotic resistance is already present in the environmental resistome.