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Source: Public Library of Science journal Could the fossil above, revealed to the public today at a news conference, be the long sought after “missing link” for evolution that some news outlets are claiming?  In actuality, the idea of a missing link is somewhat of a misnomer.  Evolutionary relations are more like a complex family…

Source: finsbry / Flickr / All Rights reserved My granddaughter Sara is six years old. About six months ago, her mom called to tell me Sara wanted to talk about some theological concepts. She put Sara on the phone, and I was peppered with questions like, “Who made God?” and “Where is heaven?” Our discussion…

The complexity of life extends even to the smallest of creatures, including bacteria.  In this TED lecture Bonnie Bassler, a molecular biologist from Princeton, discusses her discovery of quorum sensing — the chemical mechanism by which all bacteria are able to communicate with both among their own species and outside of it.  Through this system,…

Source: National DNA Day / Flickr / All Rights Reserved For 20 years, the question of how nucleotides, the building blocks of both RNA and DNA, could have spontaneously formed during the beginning of our planet has beguiled researchers.  The problem seemed so insurmountable, in fact, that in 1999 two leading researchers, Gerald Joyce and…
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