In the recent thread “That’s gotta hurt” Bill Cole states: That thought is perfectly correct. There are, in natural history, a few fundamental transitions which scream design more that anything else. I want to be clear: I stick to my often expressed opinion that each single new complex protein is enough to infer design. But it is equally true that some crucial points in the devlopment of life on earth certainly stand out as major engineering events. So, let’s sum up a few of them: Well, to those 4 examples, I would like to add the diversification of all major clades and subphyla. Of course, another fundamental transition is the one to homo sapiens, but I will not deal with … Continue reading The highly engineered transition to vertebrates: an example of functional information analysis