Author: Casey Luskin
Nature: “Convergent Evolution Seen in Hundreds of Genes” and “Surprisingly, Extensive”
Bats and cetaceans (whales and dolphins) are very different.
Mechanical Gears Discovered on Planthopper Insects Provide an Opportunity to Recognize, or Deny, Design
History has long attributed the development of the gear to the ancient Greeks, over two thousand years ago.
Desperate for Good Headlines, Origin-of-Life Theorists Push Meager “New Organics in Meteorites” Story
As evidence for the chemical origin of life, the news media are touting a new analysis of a meteorite that fell to earth in Sutter’s Mill, California.
Evolutionary Biologist Andreas Wagner: We “Know Little” about How “Innovations Originate”
ENV reported on this earlier, but it merits further consideration.
Ohio State Evolutionary Biologist Steve Rissing: Teach Students More Evolution and Climate Change, Less Biology
In 2005, a winsome and intelligent graduate student named Bryan Leonard was about to defend his doctoral thesis at Ohio State.