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Jonathan McLatchie is a writer with regular contributions to several websites, such as Cross Examined, Evolution News & Views, and Uncommon Descent. He holds an honors degree in forensic biology.
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Evolution News & Vi... : 80 articles
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Uncommon Descent: 61 articles
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May 2012: 3 articles
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April 2012: 2 articles
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March 2012: 6 articles
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February 2012: 2 articles
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January 2012: 4 articles
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December 2011: 12 articles
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November 2011: 3 articles
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October 2011: 4 articles
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September 2011: 3 articles
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August 2011: 6 articles
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- Dolphins and Porpoises and...Bats? Oh My! Evolution's Convergence Problem
- Evolution News & Views · Monday, 7 May 2012
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- I have recently been reading George McGhee's Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful. McGhee's book is a gripping read, and it favorably cites the work of both Michael Denton and Douglas Axe, ID-friendly scientists well known to readers ...
- The Molecular Flagellar Clutch of Bacillus Subtilis
- Evolution News & Views · Thursday, 3 May 2012
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- I have previously outlined a few of the key mechanisms undergirding flagellar assembly, and the remarkable process of bacterial chemotaxis by which bacteria change direction in response to chemical signals. There are, of course, a number of ...
- In Explaining the Cambrian Explosion, Has the TalkOrigins Archive Resolved Darwin's Dilemma?
- Evolution News & Views · Wednesday, 2 May 2012
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- A correspondent recently referred me to an article in the TalkOrigins Archive responding to the argument that 'Complex life forms appear suddenly in the Cambrian explosion, with no ancestral fossils.' TalkOrigins is a popular online resource that ...
- Nice Try! A Review of Alan Rogers's The Evidence for Evolution
- Evolution News & Views · Friday, 27 April 2012
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- I recently read The Evidence for Evolution by University of Utah professor of anthropology and biology Alan Rogers. The book is certainly concise, only 102 pages long. Christina Richards, of the University of South Florida, has praised it for ...
- New Paper Reveals a 'Novel Insight into the Non-Coding Repertoire'
- Evolution News & Views · Thursday, 26 April 2012
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- On an almost weekly basis, new research floods in documenting previously unidentified functionality of many different classes of non-coding DNA elements. This consistent trend renders untenable the dogmatic claim that our DNA is mostly junk. A paper ...
- A New Study Adds Further Depth to the Information Story
- Evolution News & Views · Friday, 30 March 2012
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- Previously on ENV, I have described several remarkable features -- and the finely tuned characteristics -- of the genetic code found in nature. A new study, published in the journal Nature and conducted by a research team at the University of ...
- Irreducible Complexity with Four Glasses and Three Knives
- Evolution News & Views · Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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- A post at Uncommon Descentoffers an innovative way of illustrating the concept of irreducible complexity -- one that is likely to be more resistant to Darwinist misrepresentation than Michael Behe's well-known mouse trap analogy. The illustration is ...
- Massimo Pigliucci: Theodosius Dobzhansky, in His Famous Comment about Evolution, Was 'Patently Wrong'
- Evolution News & Views · Monday, 26 March 2012
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- Writing on his 'Rationally Speaking' blog, internationally acclaimed evolutionary biologist turned philosopher Massimo Pigliucci has weighed in on a recent paper published by Addy Pross entitled 'Toward a general theory of evolution: Extending ...
- This Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, It's the Unreasonable Rally
- Evolution News & Views · Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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- This Saturday, March 24, on the National Mall in Washington D.C., atheists and secularists from all over the world will gather for a day of entertainment from guest speakers, comedians and musicians. The Reason Rally, which claims to be the 'the ...
- British Geneticist Robert Saunders Weighs in on Signature in the Cell
- Evolution News & Views · Wednesday, 14 March 2012
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- Readers may recall my exchange with British geneticist Robert Saunders (here and here) following Stephen Meyer's lecture at the Lord McKay dinner in London (which you can now watch here). At the time, Saunders admitted that he had not read Signature ...
- Stephen Meyer's Centre for Intelligent Design Lecture on Signature in the Cell Now Viewable Online
- Evolution News & Views · Wednesday, 14 March 2012
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- This is certainly worth a watch. For further discussion and background of the event, see my articles here and here, as well as Alastair Noble's article here.
- The GULO Pseudogene and Its Implications for Common Descent
- Evolution News & Views · Monday, 13 February 2012
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- L-gulonolactone oxidase (GULO), the final enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), is a subject that comes up often in discussions of common ancestry. The functioning GULO gene allows most plants and many animals to produce ...
- Peer-Reviewed Paper Concludes that Darwinism "Has Pretty Much Reached the End of its Rope"
- Evolution News & Views · Monday, 6 February 2012
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- An interesting paper was recently published by David Depew and Bruce Weber in the journal Biological Theory. The paper bears the title "The Fate of Darwinism: Evolution After the Modern Synthesis." Its abstract summarizes the article's contents:We ...
- Joining the Conversation: Perspectives on the Discussion with James Shapiro
- Evolution News & Views · Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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- I have followed with interest the discussion ("Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?") initiated by Bill Dembski and now involving James Shapiro, Ann Gauger and Douglas Axe. The nub of the issue seems to relate to conflicting conceptions ...
- British Free Schools that Teach Intelligent Design as Science Will Lose Funding
- Evolution News & Views · Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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- The British Guardian newspaper reports on recent developments in UK governmental policy on teaching evolution in free schools (which, though state funded, are normally not required to follow the national curriculum):The Department for Education has ...
- On the Origin of Mitochondria: Reasons for Skepticism on the Endosymbiotic Story
- Evolution News & Views · Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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- With regret, ENV recently noted the passing of biologist Lynn Margulis. Margulis, a scientist whom I admired greatly, was never a stranger to controversy, going so far as to call neo-Darwinism "a complete funk" and asserting that "The ...
- Parallel Host and Parasite Phylogenies: Do They Imply Common Ancestry?
- Evolution News & Views · Thursday, 5 January 2012
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- One line of evidence for common ancestry, which lies among the stronger of the relevant arguments, is the phenomenon of parallel phylogenetic patterns thought to indicate host-parasite codivergence. Consider, for example, this diagram -- or ...
- The Year in Review: Intelligent Design in the UK
- Evolution News & Views · Wednesday, 28 December 2011
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- An often-heard criticism of intelligent design claims that it is exclusively an American phenomenon, since presumably the rest of the world is too smart to fall for the stuff. Of course this is nonsense. ID is making impressive strides in Europe and ...
- Molecular Animation Reveals the Machinery -- Yes, Machinery -- of Life
- Evolution News & Views · Thursday, 22 December 2011
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- Readers may recall, back in June 2010, Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boundry expressing their strong dislike for machine metaphors in science (see also Paul Nelson's remarks on their statement here). Pigliucci and Boundry said that,...if we want to ...
- Larry Moran Defends "Junk DNA"
- Evolution News & Views · Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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- Earlier, I responded to remarks made by PZ Myers at the recent Skepticon 4 conference. His subject: "Junk DNA."On his Sandwalk blog, University of Toronto biochemist Larry Moran has posted a response to my article. Since the post is relatively civil ...
- Animation Reveals Engineering Elegance of RNA Interference
- Evolution News & Views · Monday, 19 December 2011
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- Nature Reviews Genetics features an excellent high quality computer visualization (including an associated slideshow) of the elegant mechanism of RNA interference. RNA interference is a defence mechanism that enables double-stranded RNA molecules ...
- Treasure in the Genetic Goldmine: PZ Myers Fails on "Junk DNA"
- Evolution News & Views · Monday, 19 December 2011
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- Readers may recall my encounter with developmental biology professor PZ Myers earlier this year. In that brief interaction, I came to appreciate Myers's ability to charm his adoring fans and followers irrespective of the scientific robustness of his ...
- The Face of a Frog: Time-Lapse Video Reveals Never-Before-Seen Bioelectric Pattern
- Evolution News & Views · Tuesday, 13 December 2011
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- Jonathan Wells has already drawn our attention to a recent paper by Vandenberg et al. in the journal Developmental Dynamics. The authors make the startling and innovative discovery that bioelectrical signals are essential for the proper formation of ...
- How Good is Phil Johnson's Biology?
- Evolution News & Views · Monday, 12 December 2011
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- We've recently been discussing whether Berkeley law professor Phil Johnson (author of Darwin on Trial) is ill-informed on biology. After I posted my previous article, a friend directed my attention to this passage from Thomas Woodward's book Doubts ...
- An Eye-Opening Discovery: The Remarkable Vision of Anomalocaris
- Evolution News & Views · Thursday, 8 December 2011
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- Readers may recall the Illustra Media production Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. The documentary opens with an animation of the hideous Anomalocaris, undisputed terror of the Cambrian seas. The creature is in the news ...
