Evolution
- Junk DNA and Complexity Science: A Sad mix
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A quote from an extremely mediocre book, Complexity: A Guided Tour. Like most people coming out of the 'complexity sciences', the author has a mediocre grasp of molecular biology, both current developments, and the history of the field. It's ...
Blog Post - Michael White - May 21 2010 - 2:58pm
- Complexity disappoints me again
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Another instance of a misleading passage in Complexity: A Guided Tour: Another example where Evo-Devo is challenging long-held views about evolution concerns the notion of convergent evolution. In my high school biology class, we learned that the octopus e ...
Blog Post - Michael White - May 23 2010 - 1:43pm
- Prospects For Understanding Complexity: A Final Rant
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In the final chapter of the book Complexity: A Guided Tour, Mitchell gets to the heart of the real issues that I've been griping about in this blog. She begins by citing a harsh, 1995 piece by John Horgan, “Is Complexity A Sham?” The article contained ...
Article - Michael White - May 22 2010 - 10:59pm
- Signs of evolution in plants
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Some of the earliest plants which evolved to bear seeds Gymnosperms ( like cycads) did not have their ovules covered in the ovary. They called it naked ovules. They were even borne on the leaves in some species which are now represented in fossil ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 13 2010 - 2:29am
- Understanding languages of untold words.
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If evolution of a man took place in different regions the world the communication adopted the shape of dialects and languages. Hunders of dialetcs or dozens of languages can be found in India. Europe also has so many different languages. All human specie ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 19 2010 - 4:59pm
- Music communicates much more
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 19 2010 - 5:39pm
- What gives different colours to flowers
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Recently I had a chance to visit the grave of my departed Professor Dr Karl-Hermann Neumann with his son Mr Rolf Neumann in Giessen Germany. Professor Dr Neumann worked with Professor F. C. Steward FRS of Cornell Univessity who trained botanists of his tim ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 10 2010 - 3:01am
- Experiments on the origin of life
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Nobel laureate J. W. Szostak delivered an interesting lecture on his experiments relating to the origins of life. His research group has set itself the goal of just getting some kind of protocell going, even if it is under totally artificial conditions. It ...
Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Jul 12 2010 - 9:38pm
- Evolution of shell morphology in freshwater mussels
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For the past year, I have been working with several colleagues to completely redesign our first year biology program at the University of Guelph. One of the aspects of the new "Discovering Biodiversity" course (which complements courses in human ...
Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Jul 26 2010 - 6:50pm
- Primitive Frogs And Phylogenetic Fallacies
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As I have explained in various blog posts and in this paper, it is a fallacy to assume that any one character found in a so-called "primitive" species alive today was also found in the ancestral species. All living species are modern species, and ...
Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jul 26 2010 - 9:36pm
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