Author: Casey Luskin
Top Five Problems with Current Origin-of-Life Theories
Most theorists believe that there were many steps involved in the origin of life, but the very first step would have involved a primordial soup — a water-based sea of simple organic molecules.
Jerry Coyne is Upset at Paul Nelson: Be Encouraged
There is hardly a scientific argument against Nelson to be found either in Coyne’s comments or in the comments of the scientists he contacted.
Paper Lays to Rest "Vernanimalcula," Supposed Precambrian Ancestor of Bilaterian Animals
“The ‘little spring animal’ has taken on a life of its own, a life it never had in the Neoproterozoic.”
Bothersome Bats and Other Pests Disturb the “Tree of Life”
A recent paper in the journal Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society offers some striking comments about the prevalence of discordance among phylogenetic trees.
Plethora of Recent Papers Finds Function for Non-Coding DNA
One of the greatest movies ever made (in my humble opinion) was Three Amigos, which introduced pop-culture to the word “plethora.”