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Happy 12th of February

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2009 02 12 Andrew Microposts Comments (0)

David Attenborough on creationists

Quote of the year so far… They [creationists] always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile [...]

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2009 01 27 Andrew Microposts Comments (0)

“Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme”

Some very clever dudes at Scripps have demonstrated mutual self-replication of a pair of RNA enzymes. They observed evolution of more efficient enzymes, and recombination, providing a proof-of-concept for the RNA World hypothesis. Wired article here or original paper here (probably requires a subscription).

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2009 01 15 Andrew Microposts Comments (0)