Often portrayed as a simple Darwinian development, it was recently admitted at Nature to be a puzzle.
Evolution
Stray dogs vs “new species” at Chernobyl
Those “new species” that radiation would produce have always existed and always will exist — in the human imagination at least. Meanwhile, it is just the dogs. “Evolution” led them back to your basic dog.
Evolution News: A Remarkably Candid Statement About an Unsolved Evolutionary Puzzle
At Biological Reviews: The deuterostomes continue to elude a single, clean narrative to describe their early evolution, a state that is both fascinating and frustrating in equal measure.
Table Talk: Evolution and Christianity – Is there a conflict?
Richard Buggs is currently Senior Research Leader (Plant Health & Adaptation) at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at Queen Mary, University of London.
Fossil insect found at WalMart… maybe not even extinct
At Phys.org: “The giant lacewing was formerly widespread across North America, but was mysteriously extirpated from eastern North America by the 1950s. This discovery suggests there may be relic populations of this large, Jurassic-Era insect yet to be discovered, explained Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State’s Insect Identification Lab.”
Yeast has “genes in waiting”
Carvunis should watch her back. There are lots of useless Darwinprofs out there clogging the system till retirement. They have nothing to do but take down anyone who questions their orthodoxy.
Why “junk DNA” sequences are not deleted: Because Evolution, we are told, “rejects them”
So evolution has foresight? In any event, there are tons of science news stories out there about “junk DNA” that turned out to be functional. There are 252 stories on the topic here at Uncommon Descent alone.
Spinosaur brain shows “preadaptation” for catching fish
That’s “Evolution” for you. Always thinking ahead.
Did giant viruses grow from small ones?
Giant viruses are an interesting crew. They behave in some ways like life forms but technically they are not thought, in many quarters, to be life forms. There is a good chance that traditional Darwin think is not going to unravel the mystery.
Denis Noble debates Richard Dawkins: Is Dawkins 20-30 years behind?
“Is The Selfish Gene holding back medicine and cancer cures? The world’s most incendiary evolutionary biologist asks if we need to rethink DNA.” – Evolution 2
At Mind Matters News: Brain scientist: Consciousness didn’t evolve. It creates evolution
Cognitive scientist Hoffman starts by trying to align his consciousness theory with standard evolution theory and then just chucks that and says what he thinks.
At Sci.News: Human Bipedalism May Have Evolved in Trees, Study Says
The “mystery” of “why humans alone amongst the apes first began to walk on two feet,” and “why these chimpanzees spend so much time in the trees” presents yet another disconnect between the expectations of evolutionary theory and reality. However, both of these findings are in complete accord with the model of intelligent design, in which the Designer intended humans to walk on two feet and chimpanzees to spend most of their time in trees.
At Phys.org: Genes and languages aren’t always found together, says new study
If a specific language evolved along with a specific people group, it isn’t clear that this would result in an innate ability to become fluent in any human language, as children raised in cross-cultural settings have demonstrated.
At Evolution News: An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design
“ccording to Lewis in these essays, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think that in nature complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things.”
At Evolution News: There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”
“There is no such thing as a settled theory of evolution. On that point, textbook orthodoxy is simply false.”