biotext.org.uk » evolution http://biotext.org.uk Not a typewriter Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:18:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Happy 12th of February http://biotext.org.uk/happy-12th-of-february/ http://biotext.org.uk/happy-12th-of-february/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:48:52 +0000 Andrew http://biotext.org.uk/?p=203 Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

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]]> http://biotext.org.uk/happy-12th-of-february/feed/ 0 David Attenborough on creationists http://biotext.org.uk/david-attenborough-on-creationists/ http://biotext.org.uk/david-attenborough-on-creationists/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:33:15 +0000 Andrew http://biotext.org.uk/?p=140 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 with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.

]]> http://biotext.org.uk/david-attenborough-on-creationists/feed/ 0 “Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme” http://biotext.org.uk/self-sustained-replication-of-an-rna-enzyme/ http://biotext.org.uk/self-sustained-replication-of-an-rna-enzyme/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:07:24 +0000 Andrew http://biotext.org.uk/?p=137 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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