DS Wilson’s view of biophysically constrained life (4)
Summary: Clearly, DS Wilson did not get Dobzhansky’s joke about Creation that began some 10 billion years ago in the context of an event that […]
Plants
Science fiction, not theories, predicts facts
Electric fields affect wing movement, leading to agitation and changes in brain chemistry Excerpt: The effect on the wings being moved seems to agitate the […]
Converting sunlight to fuel: O2 and CO2 Reactions
Efficient solar-to-fuels production from a hybrid microbial–water-splitting catalyst system Abstract excerpt: “…we report the development of a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system in which the bacterium […]
Eliminating correlations from evolutionary ecology
De novo creation of olfactory receptor genes clearly links food odors via amino acid substitutions to cell type differentiation in mosquitoes, and in nematodes, flies, […]
Sexual differentiation of cell types in plants
Antheridiogen determines sex in ferns via a spatiotemporally split gibberellin synthesis pathway Excerpt: “Homosporous ferns have evolved a mechanism to favor cross-fertilization by controlling the […]
De novo gene Creation sans evolution of genes via mutations
Where do genes come from? – Carl Zimmer The pseudoscientific nonsense touted in this video has been refuted by decades of experimental evidence. The experimental […]
Another slap in the face for evolutionary theorists
From my invited and rejected submission on nutritional epigenetics: Nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled ecological adaptations: from atoms to ecosystems. (The submission was rejected with another slap in the […]
Epigenetic Transgenerational Actions
Michael Skinner (video) 2014 Forum: Epigenetic Transgenerational Actions of Endocrine Disruptors on Reproduction and Disease The conserved molecular mechanisms of exposure-induced disease. A data-driven presentation […]
Conserved molecular mechanisms: What is not clear?
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Myths and Mechanisms Heard and Martienssen (2014) Excerpt 1): “…small RNA signals are highly mobile, being transmitted through the gut in C. […]