Category: Evolution
Fossil Friday: Abrupt Appearance of a Distinct Dragonfly Group
The fossil is almost complete, only the abdomen is missing and was likely bitten off by a predator.
On the Origin of Life, James Tour Exposes the Irrelevance of Lee Cronin’s Research
Tour details Cronin’s consistent exaggeration of the progress he and other researchers have made in unraveling the mystery of life’s origin.
Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem
As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map.
Humans Have Limits. Transhumanists Want to Overcome Them
Transhumanism, arguably an offshoot of neo-Darwinism, is set on envisioning the next grand step of human evolution.
Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin
You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication.