1+ week, 3+ day ago   (355+ words) Adami presents experiments done using the Avida platform in a series of papers. They increased mutation rate to high levels and found that the evolving Avida programs were able to adapt to a high-mutation rate environment. The genomes were adapted…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (319+ words) From an intelligent design perspective, this means they lack information. In order to exhibit information, the enzymes and metabolites would have to display specified complexity. But when just about anything is accepted, there is no specificity. Such models reward undifferentiated…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (528+ words) How can we make sense of claims for plant consciousness? At the Epoch Times, Makai Elías Calles discusses recent findings about plants’ complex ability to perceive and react to their environments: Plants lack neurons, but they still readily communicate, including…...