Tag: Mutation

Mikiola fagi, galls of insect pest on beech leaves

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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
April 17, 2023

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, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Darwinism, Evolution, gall, Mutation, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, plant galls, plants}

Do Plant Galls Falsify Darwinism?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

April 17, 2023

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Plant galls are novel forms that benefit the intruding insect, not the plant. Do these structures falsify Darwinism, as Darwin himself suggested they might? Retired geneticist Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lonnig explains. Read More ›

Antibiotic resistant bacteria inside a biofilm, 3D illustration. Biofilm is a community of bacteria where they aquire antibiotic resistance and communicate with each other by quorum sensing molecules

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Author
Scott Minnich

Date
June 15, 2007

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, __edited, antibiotic resistance, compensatory mutations, devolution, Microevolution, Mutation, research}

Is Antibiotic Resistance Evidence for Darwinian Evolution?

_{Scott Minnich

June 15, 2007

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This episode of ID The Future features the audio of a short video segment from the Icons of Evolution curriculum modules DVD. Antibiotic resistance is an example of natural selection acting on random mutation and is often referred to as one of the hallmark pieces of evidence for Darwin’s theory of evolution. Is it truly strong evidence supporting modern evolutionary theory? Biologist Scott Minnich and other biologists think not and explain why.