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Date February 23, 2011
Tagged , __edited , adaptation , Biologic Institute , Complex Adaptation
Complex Adaptations Challenge Darwinian Evolution: An Interview With Douglas Axe
Douglas Axe
February 23, 2011
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Episode 457
Guest(s) Douglas Axe
Duration 00:18:13 Download Audio File (12.5 mb)
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On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Biologic Insitute director Douglas Axe about his peer-reviewed paper in BIO-Complexity , “The Limit of Complex Adaptation: An Analysis Based on a Simple Model of Structured Bacterial Populations .”
Dr. Axe explains complex adaptations — adaptive changes that require more than one simple mutation to a genome in order for a particular adaptation to work — and the difficulty Darwinian evolution faces when beneficial mutations have maladaptive intermediate stages.
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Maxwell Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola University, Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureDouglas Axe is the Maxwell Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola University, the founding Director of Biologic Institute, the founding Editor of BIO-Complexity , and the author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed . After completing his PhD at Caltech, he held postdoctoral and research scientist positions at the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre. His research, which examines the functional and structural constraints on the evolution of proteins and protein systems, has been featured in many scientific journals, including the Journal of Molecular Biology , the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , BIO-Complexity , and Nature , and in such books as Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer and Life’s Solution by Simon Conway Morris.
