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phys.org /1 month ago

Updating Darwin: Biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited idea has been making a strong comeback. It helps us expla...

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theconversation.com /1 month ago

Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

DNA and Beyond: A Multilayered Revolution

Because we are dealing with foundational scientific discoveries, we will address several “So what?” questions. Source

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scienceandculture.com /6 days ago

Evolution of New Genes: The Big “If”

If the theory can explain the evolution of new genes then evolution can be a successful explanation. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution

The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

In the end, Christoph Adami’s method has not shown anything about the entropy or information content of ancestral sequences. Source

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journals.plos.org /2 weeks ago

Metabolic and developmental rate divergence between serially homologous cells underlies an evolutionary innovation in &l...

by Ben R. Hopkins, Olga Barmina, Xinying Wang, Mandy M. Situ, Haley A. Bolanos, Shizhan Nie, Artyom Kopp The individualization of serially repeated homologs is one route through w...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

In Defiance of Evolution, Life Is an Idea

Nobody looks at a bear and thinks, “If it only had a long tail, it would be more bear-like.” Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Evolution of Biological Information: Lizards and a “New” Organ

The first experiment that Christoph Adami discusses is one where scientists transported lizards from one island to another. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Study of Biological Origins Is Entering a Surreal State

No biological history and no biological beginning: are you seeing the trend? Both seem to be responses to being battered by the evidence. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Common Descent on the Road to Incomprehension

In 2025, Haber proposed that there JUST IS NO “true history of life.” Don’t look for it, as if one could actually find it, because it doesn’t exist. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Technological Evolution: Accidentally Demonstrating the Limits of Evolution

While economist Brian Arthur models the development of technology, he refers to it as the “evolution” of technology. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

New Paper: Appeals to Evolutionary Plateaus Do Not Save Evolution

In evolution, mutations that increase fitness can be thought of as moving uphill, whereas mutations that decrease fitness can be thought of as moving downhill. Source

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Asymmetry in the evolution of the male and female germlines

by Carina F. Mugal, Marie Sémon A new study in PLOS Biology shows that in Drosophila, patterns of molecular evolution differ between genes expressed during oogenesis and spermatog...

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phys.org /1 week ago

When biology inspires mathematics: Hidden symmetries explain why widely used evolutionary methods can give false answers

Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathe...

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Source

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scienceandculture.com /4 weeks ago

Fossil Explosions Persist, and Other Confirmations of Intelligent Design

From 2016 until his tragic death in 2025, Bechly made many important contributions to ID literature on the topic of fossil explosions in the history of life. Source

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

Animal genomes follow irreversible 'evolutionary highways' across thousands of species

A human, an octopus, and a coral could hardly look more different—yet deep inside their cells, their chromosomes still carry recognizable pieces of a genome inherited from an anima...

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible

Adami says, “it is hard not to see the parallels to other evolutionary innovations, for example the co-option of the existing crystallin protein in the eye.” Source

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scienceandculture.com /4 days ago

Evolutionary Origin of Information: The Problem of Robustness

It is surprising to me that the authors of these studies did not consider it more of a priority to understand the mechanics of robustness. Source

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scitechdaily.com /1 month ago

New Research Questions a Textbook Theory of How Insect Societies Evolve

ASU researchers found that genetics alone cannot explain the origins of eusociality. Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society buil...

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scienceandculture.com /6 days ago

Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

But then the complexity is not interesting. Crucially, it’s not really information. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Paper Promotes “Weirdest Theory Yet” for the Cambrian Explosion

First the Oxygen Theory, now the Feces Theory. But how much experience do we really have with feces creating new genetic information? Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Simulations Point to Design: Learning from the History of Artificial Life

Once you introduce step-by-step guidance, you are no longer simulating an evolutionary process. Source

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