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• Pleiotropy Saves the Day for Evolving New Genes

  

  What is the origin of new genes? In order to do new stuff, new genes are needed. Where do they come from, then? Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) - direct... Read more

  The 29 October 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• Titles in Evolution - and in Creation?

  

  Here w go again with the new articles on evolution. This is just a very small sample that I chose out of interest from the last couple of weeks - and just from ... Read more

  The 17 October 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• Ochman on Bacterial Evolution

  

  Yesterday I went to the annual Thomas S Whittam Memorial Lecture here at MSU. Howard Ochman talked about "Evolutionary Forces Affecting Bacterial Genomes",... Read more

  The 10 October 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• ENCODE: What Defines Genomic Function?

  

  A new wealth of articles by the ENCODE (the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) consortium suggest that far more of the human genome carries out some function or... Read more

  The 05 September 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• One Flew Over the Cuckold’s Nest

  

  It’s the bane of manly existence everywhere: to be a cuckold. Or so the story goes. It seems to be taken for granted, in both evolutionary biology and... Read more

  The 04 July 2012 by   Cris
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• Selling Spirituality & Global Capital

  

  Whatever else one thinks of Slavov Zizek, he is occasionally capable of keen and clear insights. One of his favorite targets is New Age spirituality and... Read more

  The 21 June 2012 by   Cris
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• Chemical Ghosts in the Machine

  

  If we think deeply about evolution, we eventually will ask questions not about the origin of species but about the origin of life. For some theistic... Read more

  The 12 February 2012 by   Cris
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• Israeli Scientists Breed Black Tomato

  

  Israeli horticulturists have developed a gothic crossbreed of tomato that is red on the inside, black on the out. To create the 'Black Galaxy' tomato, the... Read more

  The 02 February 2012 by   Gerard
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• Misfires of Moral Psychology

  

  Over the past decade there has been a sea change in the way we assess moral reasoning, judgment, and behavior. The old view, developed and championed largely... Read more

  The 01 February 2012 by   Cris
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• Chinese Boy Can See In The Dark

  A Chinese boy has stunned medics with his ability to see in pitch black with eyes that glow in the dark. Doctors have studied Nong Youhui's amazing eyesight... Read more

  The 26 January 2012 by   Gerard
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