The Long Game
James McInerneyWhy Evolution Must Gamble To Avoid Extinction
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Modularity
In 1995, Günter Wagner, a developmental biologist at Yale University, asked the simple question: why do organisms have parts?
Now, anatomy researchers had already figured out what most of the parts were, as well as their equivalents (what...
Constraints Make Things
In 1983, two post-doctoral fellows at the University of Basel named William McGinnis and Mike Levine took a short stretch of DNA from a fruit fly gene and used it as a molecular probe to search for similar sequences in other organisms. This...
Why Evolution Looks Like a Genius Is At Work
A key carries real information about the lock it fits. Every bump and notch along its edge is an imprint of the shape of the lock. If you know something about the key, then you know something about the lock. Living organisms fit with their...
Drift and Luck
In 1968, a Japanese geneticist named Motoo Kimura published a paper that changed how every evolutionary biologist thought about evolution. It was written in the language of population genetics, which is to say it was full of equations, and...
The Invisible Groundwork
If I visited Earth three billion years ago, I’m pretty sure I would have been disappointed.
I would have found water in the form of a warm ocean under a hazy sky. The atmosphere would have been a mix of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane...
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