• A fundamental, yet unresolved, question in craniofacial biology is about the origin of the premaxilla, the most distal bone present in the upper jaw of all amniotes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Most biology textbooks include the origin of life - and the Miller-Urey experiment - in their treatments of evolution. (iconsofevolution.com)
  • If the NCSE feels that the origin of life is really "not a question about evolution," the organization should launch a campaign to correct biology textbooks. (iconsofevolution.com)
  • The NCSE's claim that the origin of life is "not a question about evolution" ignores the fact that most biology textbooks include it - along with the Miller-Urey experiment - in their treatments of evolution. (iconsofevolution.com)
  • For example, Campbell, Reece and Mitchell's Biology (5th Edition, 1999), one of the most widely used introductory textbooks for college undergraduates, discusses the Miller-Urey experiment in "Unit Five: The Evolutionary History of Biological Diversity. (iconsofevolution.com)
  • The Miller-Urey experiment is also standard fare in upper division and graduate-level textbooks devoted entirely to evolution, such as Futuyma's Evolutionary Biology (3rd Edition, 1998) and Freeman and Herron's Evolutionary Analysis (2nd Edition, 2001). (iconsofevolution.com)
  • The evolutionary arguments that seemed so convincing during my early months of biology study have gradually yielded to contrary data. (aiiainstitute.org)
  • Following the pioneering affective science of researchers like Jaak Panksepp, Antonio Damasio, and Fran de Waal, we bring together insights and data from philosophy, biology and psychology to shape a new research program -an alternative approach to the algorithmic assumptions of cognitive science and the post hoc stories of some evolutionary psychology. (philosophyofbrains.com)
  • The aim of this review is to provide scientific information for better understanding of the evolutionary biology, molecular epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and prevention of Lassa fever in Nigeria and other endemic regions worldwide, which can lead to improved control efforts and reduce morbidity and mortality from recurrent epidemics. (bvsalud.org)
  • Homology studies structures in different related species resulting from a shared ancestor, often expressed in a common embryological origin. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • We have now cloned a cDNA for mouse zonadhesin (16.4 kb), and it demonstrates a large species variation in the numbers and arrangements of domains. (embl.de)
  • My PhD work combined phylogenetic, cytogenetic, and quantitative methods to address the genetic and evolutionary causes of species differences in recombination rate. (jax.org)
  • Evolutionary relationships of animal phyla are based on DNA and molecular evidence due to the lack of fossil evidence of ancestral species. (answersingenesis.org)
  • When Darwin wrote the Origin of Species , he famously closed the book with the provocative promise that "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. (philosophyofbrains.com)
  • In opinion of De Vries, these mutations give origin to a new species that he named "elementary species" [ 1 ], [ 2 ]. (intechopen.com)
  • Like many zoologists of the immediate post- Origin of Species period, Metchnikoff's constant aim was to show that in their development the lower animals follow a plan similar to that of the higher animals. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species , it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin's species work. (darwin-online.org.uk)
  • Many proteins exist in the so-called "twilight zone" of sequence alignment, where low pairwise sequence identity makes it difficult to determine homology and phylogeny. (genomyx.ch)
  • Moreover, we outline how new fossils and phylogenetic analyses may resolve current debates about morphological transformations in tooth loss and baleen origin across the phylogeny of stem and crown Mysticeti. (frontiersin.org)
  • Initially I was particularly concerned with morpho- logical homologies of a variety of larval structures, such as the cranial and pharyngeal skeleton and the nerves and musculature, in order to learn more about amphibian phylogeny, for during my pre-and early postgrad- uate years G. R. Beer and D. M. S. Watson inspired an undying interest in and respect for vertebrate comparative anatomy. (holycross.edu)
  • Phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that the family of opioid receptors was already present at the origin of jawed vertebrates over 450 million years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is hardly surprising, then, that we have so many gaps in the evolutionary history of life, gaps in such key areas as the origin of the multicellular organisms, the origin of vertebrates, not to mention the origins of most invertebrate groups. (answersingenesis.org)
  • If a genetic programme for specifying cartilage cells arose only once during metazoan evolution, elements of a shared molecular fingerprint will be present in both cephalopods and vertebrates, despite their long independent evolutionary history. (europa.eu)
  • Although AtPPOX-1 and AtPPOX-2 are putatively isoenzymes, very little homology was found in their amino acid sequences. (auburn.edu)
  • Protein sequence information mainly consists of amino acid residue composition, biochemical features of amino acid residues and evolutionary information in terms of position-specific scoring matrices (PSSM). (nature.com)
  • In order to understand their evolutionary relationship, phylogenetic analysis of AtPPOX-1 and AtPPOX-2 homologs across the three domains of life suggests that AtPPOX-1 and AtPPOX-2 have independent origins. (auburn.edu)
  • However, it now seems to be that amphibian phylogenetic relationships are best dealt with by the paleontologists, so ably demonstrated by D. M. S. Watson and A. S. Romer and the contemporary enthusiasts in this field like A. L. Panchen, R. L. Carroll, E. Jarvik, and K. S. Thompson among a host of others, particularly in the USA. (holycross.edu)
  • 6] Karl Gegenbaur noted that the most reliable clue to evolutionary history is homology, the comparison of anatomical parts which have a common evolutionary origin. (scihi.org)
  • Their embryology was presented as a shortened summary of their entire evolutionary history. (creation.com)
  • Moreover, these proteins' remarkable sequence dissimilarity made it uncertain whether disparate 7TMIC types (Gr/Or, Grl, GRL, DUF3537, PHTF, and GrlHz) are homologous or convergent, leaving their evolutionary history unresolved. (genomyx.ch)
  • What we see in the bacterial flagellum is an evolutionary history. (evcforum.net)
  • Liu and Ochman (2007) demonstrate that the evolutionary history of the bac flag involves gene duplication and divergence, and common ancestry with secretory systems. (evcforum.net)
  • We can find the stepwise evolutionary history for this system. (evcforum.net)
  • In study of ancient history (origins, which we cannot observe), can the role of science and naturalism differ from their role in study of processes that we can observe today? (grisda.org)
  • Obviously we have no record of the origin of life, and little or no evolutionary history of the soft-bodied organisms. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Studying the embryonic development of invertebrates reveals their evolutionary history. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Given the genetic variation," Hagerty explained, "we can't possibly get the original population to below about 10,000 people at any time in our evolutionary history. (salvomag.com)
  • The Trinity therians have long been the focus of attempts to reconstruct the evolutionary history of higher mammals, especially in the context of the development of tribospheny. (bioone.org)
  • Although the origin and evolutionary history, and the transmission dynamics of Lassa virus have been revealed through recent. (bvsalud.org)
  • As first proposed by Gans and Northcutt [ 1 , 2 ], the major evolutionary innovation of the vertebrate body plan relies on elaboration of a new head at the anterior end of an ancestral chordate trunk. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Following his PhD. he worked as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley working on the origin of chordates focussing on the evolution of the vertebrate central nervous system, first in Mike Levine's lab, then with John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner from Harvard. (stanford.edu)
  • An evolution argument that was well illustrated in our textbook was that the hearts of fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds showed a beautiful evolutionary progression. (creation.com)
  • We also learned about homology-for example, the similar limb bone arrangements of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. (creation.com)
  • I learned about homology, i.e. the similar limb bones of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. (aiiainstitute.org)
  • [1] In his Descent of Man and his Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals , Darwin began to throw some of that promised light -especially regarding the emotional and cognitive similarities (homologies) of mammals. (philosophyofbrains.com)
  • Plants can also have homologous structures, demonstrating that the core pattern remains consistent.Plants can also have homologous structures. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Subsystems of the complex might share homology to other systems, but the system as a whole does not fall into a nested hierarchy since some of its component parts lack homologous counterparts. (evcforum.net)
  • Gegenbaur demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence supporting of the theory of evolution. (scihi.org)
  • Results were believed to be consistent with the evolutionary evidence from anatomy. (creation.com)
  • New evidence might come along that would demonstrate that our previous interpretations were somehow mistaken. (genesispark.com)
  • The origin of multicellular life from a group of colonial organisms is a stretch of the imagination and is not based on any physical evidence. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Embryology was Darwin's main 'proof' for evolutionary change, but the evidence which had led Darwin to this conclusion had been falsified by scientist Ernst Haeckel. (aiiainstitute.org)
  • Other Evangelical evolutionary scientists were quoted saying things like Adam and Eve "do not fit the evidence" or, although there was "wiggle room in the past" to believe in Adam and Eve, "human genome sequencing took that wiggle room away. (salvomag.com)
  • For example, the pro-Darwin National Center for Science Education (NCSE) claims that "consistency between biogeographic and evolutionary patterns provides important evidence about the continuity of the processes driving the evolution and diversification of all life, " and "[t]his continuity is what would be expected of a pattern of common descent. (evolutiontheory.net)
  • In making its case for common descent, the NCSE essentially ignores the numerous and significant examples where the biogeographical evidence does not fit well with purported "evolutionary patterns. (evolutiontheory.net)
  • That consistency between biogeographic and evolutionary patterns provides important evidence about the continuity of the processes driving the evolution and diversification of all life. (evolutiontheory.net)
  • Homology results from adaptive radiation from a common ancestor, allowing organisms to adapt effectively to varied ecological niches. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In this study, two genes in the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana were found to encode for proteins that demonstrated PPOX activity: one gene is At5g49970 coding for a protein now designated AtPPOX-1, and the other gene is At2g46580 coding for a protein now designated AtPPOX-2. (auburn.edu)
  • The partner proteins have undergone their own evolutionary changes over the last 700 million years - they're designed to work with the laptop's modern components, not the outdated chip. (uncommondescent.com)
  • And, as I have stated before, and as countless ID proponents have insisted every time they are asked about gene duplication as it relates to the origins of new proteins, the ID party line is that this is not a change in information. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Taken together, this indicates that the NOP receptor gene, OPRL1, has equal evolutionary origin, but a higher mutation rate, than the other receptor genes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mutations that disrupt centromere integrity or reduce homology between X- and Y-linked PARs can lead to chromosome segregation errors and constitute important genetic mechanisms for cancer, cellular senescence, and infertility. (jax.org)
  • The evolutionary relationships are based on assumptions about how the embryos develop and the similarity in their molecular structure. (answersingenesis.org)
  • LS regions are rich in transposons and genes with distinct evolutionary profiles but related to pathogenicity, indicative of horizontal acquisition. (nature.com)
  • To determine the origin of neural crest genes, we analyzed Phenotype Ontology annotations to select genes that control the development of this tissue. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The course was supposed to be general botany, but turned out to be primarily a course on how flowering plants demonstrated evolution, particularly in their embryology. (aiiainstitute.org)
  • Do homologies in animal anatomy or biochemistry support evolution? (grisda.org)
  • [1] But this appears to be little more than harsh rhetoric: the NCSE cites papers that demonstrate trivial degrees of evolution and when read carefully, actually validate EE's arguments about fitness costs associated with antibiotic resistance. (exploreevolution.com)
  • Other examples from plants and animals demonstrate that apparent resemblances are the product of adaptive adaptations in response to identical environmental circumstances. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Similar Design (Homology) Proves Common Origin. (rae.org)
  • Soft parts, such as skin impressions of dinosaurs, and soft-bodied animals like jellyfish are sometimes preserved, and in some localities may be common, but they give us only brief glimpses of evolutionary histories. (answersingenesis.org)
  • The presence of these cellular cartilaginous tissues outside the chordate lineage may indicate a common origin of cartilage as a metazoan tissue type (homology), or alternatively highlights constraints that animals face in the construction of internal cellular endoskeletons (convergence). (europa.eu)
  • Inherit the Wind helps us understand both the weakness of evolutionary arguments as well as the lack of depth of understanding in the Christian community, common for its time and still prevalent today. (rae.org)
  • Since North American opossums are not descended from Australian "possums, " their high morphological similarity dictates to neo-Darwinian evolutionists that this must be another case of extreme convergent evolution that challenges the methodology by which neo-Darwinism infers homology and common descent. (evolutiontheory.net)
  • This was claimed to allegedly show "consistency between biogeographic and evolutionary patterns" that demonstrates "what would be expected of a pattern of common descent. (evolutiontheory.net)
  • Has continued search for fossil evolutionary intermediates found lots of them, as Darwin predicted? (grisda.org)
  • With the broad goal of elevating the profile of wild mice in biomedical research, my group is pursuing population genomic investigations in wild mice to understand the natural evolutionary forces that shape variation in wild mouse populations. (jax.org)
  • Evolutionary loss and gain of introns in genomic sequence data may provide a mechanism by which organisms diversify gene expression and gene function. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A signature of genomic deletion of introns via NHEJ is the presence of 2-8 bp of micro-homology. (biomedcentral.com)
  • I studied general zoology under a Harvard Ph.D., Gilbert L. Woodside, an embryologist convinced that the stages in embryological development represented a summary of the ancient evolutionary past. (aiiainstitute.org)
  • I don't care if some Christians attempt to incorporate evolutionary beliefs into their faith. (rae.org)
  • The article did not promote a historical Adam and Eve, but highlighted Evangelical thinkers who accept modern evolutionary theory and reject traditional beliefs about a historical Adam and Eve. (salvomag.com)
  • He was an embryologist who also was convinced that the stages in embryological development displayed a summary of the ancient evolutionary past. (creation.com)
  • However, it turned out to be primarily a consideration of how the flowering plants demonstrated evolution. (creation.com)
  • NCSE's Answer: Because evolutionary theory works with any model of the origin of life on Earth, how life originated is not a question about evolution. (iconsofevolution.com)
  • Our work reveals 7TMICs as a cryptic superfamily, with origins close to the evolution of cellular life. (genomyx.ch)
  • This is the belief that changes in the population of the peppered moth demonstrates evolution. (rae.org)
  • If animal anatomy is poorly designed, does this demonstrate evolution? (grisda.org)
  • These "evolutionary milestones" occurred at unknown dates and rates, but they must have happened in order for evolution to be true. (answersingenesis.org)
  • This was an origins course, and all we studied was "evolution. (aiiainstitute.org)
  • He moved to The USA for graduate training with Greg Wray at SUNY Stonybrook in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, where he worked on the evolution of body plans and the origin of the echinoderms. (stanford.edu)
  • Inside the front cover, among newspaper clippings about the Scopes trial are the results of a Gallup Poll taken May, 2006, where it shows that 46 percent of Americans reject the theory of evolution as the explanation for the origin of humans. (rae.org)
  • Lamarck proposed the first evolutionary theory where the organisms evolved from simple forms. (intechopen.com)
  • Also he proposed an hereditary model in which the environmental influences are very important as an agents of evolutionary change and proposed the Theory of acquired characters. (intechopen.com)
  • The evolutionary role of opioid signaling in these behaviors was confirmed in dogs, chicks, and rats. (wikipedia.org)
  • Specifically, yellow males were far less successful at mating than normal males, demonstrating for the first time that some behaviors had a genetic basis. (elifesciences.org)
  • The great classical scientists held to supernatural explanations of origins. (genesispark.com)
  • What are the two principal explanations for origins? (grisda.org)
  • It is very important to understand the origin of such high SF, as it may help in improving catalytic properties of other Rubiscos. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Results on the PDNA-62 and the PDNA-224 datasets demonstrate that features extracted from spatial context provide more information than those from sequence context and the combination of them gives more performance gain. (nature.com)
  • If the 5M urea solubility test demonstrates positive results, this finding should be confirmed by quantitating FXIII activity using a monodansylcadaverine or putrescine incorporation assay. (medscape.com)
  • Many evolutionary arguments seemed very convincing. (creation.com)
  • PPOX functionally was demonstrated in two ways, i.e. demonstration of PPOX enzyme assay directly in vitro and by the complementation of a PDX3 (coding for yeast PPOX) knockout of yeast for increased oxidative stress susceptibility. (auburn.edu)
  • However, there is still a group of organisms, dinoflagellates, single-cell eukaryotes, that are confirmed to possess Rubisco, but no successful purification of the enzyme of such origin, and hence a generation of a crystal structure was reported to date. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • This is because good embryologists came to one dead end after another trying to fit their data into an evolutionary pattern. (creation.com)
  • I was a new Christian, believing the Bible and never doubting my salvation, but was somewhat uncertain just what to believe about the subject of origins. (creation.com)
  • What attitudes will foster constructive dialogue on the controversial subject of origins? (grisda.org)
  • Because I was a new Christian, I still was somewhat uncertain just what to believe about the subject of origins. (aiiainstitute.org)
  • Why do textbooks claim that the 1953 Miller-Urey experiment shows how life's building blocks may have formed on the early Earth - when conditions on the early Earth were probably nothing like those used in the experiment, and the origin of life remains a mystery? (iconsofevolution.com)
  • Origins of Biogeography The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography by: Ebach, Malte Christian. (holycross.edu)
  • Background: Experience from the Zaire Ebolavirus epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018-2020) demonstrates that early initiation of essential critical care and administration of Zaire Ebolavirus specific monoclonal antibodies may be associated with improved outcomes among patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD). (bvsalud.org)
  • As a consequence of their unique historical origins, the genetic diversity captured in laboratory mice represents an extremely limited sample of the diversity found in wild mouse populations. (jax.org)
  • My research leverages the power of the house mouse model system to address open questions in evolutionary genomics. (jax.org)
  • If the origin of life "remains a vigorous area of research," it is only because origin-of-life researchers are dedicated to their work, not because they have discovered anything that demonstrates how life originated. (iconsofevolution.com)
  • Our prior work has demonstrated that wild mouse populations harbor numerous predicted functional and disease-associated alleles, the majority of which are not present in classical inbred mouse strains and have therefore never been experimentally tested in the laboratory. (jax.org)
  • We here consolidate previous and new work into four independent, but non-exclusive hypotheses for the origin of baleen (Figure 1 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Metameric animals exhibit a unique sort of homology, such as arthropod appendages. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Why does belief in origin of all animals by macroevolution depend on faith? (grisda.org)
  • Lungs and other organs have evolved independently in terrestrial animals, including mollusks and arthropods, as some mollusks lost their shells in recent evolutionary development. (answersingenesis.org)
  • We present four independent, but non-exclusive hypotheses for the origin of baleen. (frontiersin.org)
  • Such research must demonstrate application to a concrete biological problem. (iospress.com)
  • There are several examples of this, demonstrating that, despite a wide range of variance, the core pattern remains consistent. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Origin-of-life remains a vigorous area of research. (iconsofevolution.com)
  • Which explanation for the origin of life is based on faith: abiogenesis, or creation? (grisda.org)
  • One such volume is "The Mystery of Life's Origin" by Thaxton, Bradley, and Olsen. (rae.org)
  • This is the belief that certain organs have lost their original use and are a vestige of an evolutionary past. (rae.org)
  • The mechanism by which this evolutionary transformation took place remains unknown. (frontiersin.org)
  • We suggest that the origin of baleen is decoupled from the loss of teeth, with a separate morphological and genetic basis. (frontiersin.org)