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		<title>Evolution Follows the Path of Least Resistance</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/evolution-follows-the-path-of-least-resistance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Jerry Coyne’s blog, biologist Greg Mayer wrote: One of the most important lessons of comparative anatomy is that evolution usually proceeds by the modification of pre-existing structures (or, stated more precisely, the modification of the pre-existing developmental programs &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/evolution-follows-the-path-of-least-resistance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3101&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notice a pattern?</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/notice-a-pattern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only have the time these days to share the abstracts of studies whose data support the hypothesis of FLE.  Check this one out: SNARE protein-driven secretion of neurotransmitters from synaptic vesicles is at the center of neuronal communication. In the &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/notice-a-pattern/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3098&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Front-loading with teneurins</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/3095/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why did I bring up the teneurins? Let’s consider the abstract of a paper that was published a few weeks ago [1]: Teneurins are type II transmembrane proteins expressed during pattern formation and neurogenesis with an intracellular domain that &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/3095/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3095&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teneurins</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/teneurins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Wikipedia, Teneurins are transmembrane proteins. The name refers to &#8220;ten-a&#8221; (from &#8220;tenascin-like protein, accessory&#8221;) and &#8220;neurons&#8221;, the primary site of teneurin expression. Teneurins are highly conserved between Drosophila, C. elegans and vertebrates. In each species they are expressed &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/teneurins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3090&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evolutionary Thought Experiment</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/evolutionary-thought-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me provide you with a little evolutionary thought experiment.  Stephen J. Gould once noted that “evolution is a bush, not a ladder.”  Quite true.  Consider the following representation: &#160; Notice that the evolution of mammals does not entail a &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/evolutionary-thought-experiment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3084&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First questions about LECA</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/first-questions-about-leca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen that science has discovered the last eukaryotic common ancestor was essentially as complex as a modern day eukaryotic cell (see here and here and here).  Furthermore, I have argued that this complex cell plan that has defined &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/first-questions-about-leca/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3078&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Faces</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/electric-faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From here: For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that reveals never-before-seen patterns of visible &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/electric-faces/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3076&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic Switch for Limbs and Digits Found in Primitive Fish</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/genetic-switch-for-limbs-and-digits-found-in-primitive-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From here: Genetic instructions for developing limbs and digits were present in primitive fish millions of years before their descendants first crawled on to land, researchers have discovered. Genetic switches control the timing and location of gene activity. When a &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/genetic-switch-for-limbs-and-digits-found-in-primitive-fish/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3074&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Mystery</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/google-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean? Starting from left to right. A true-breeding pea plant that makes yellow seeds is crossed with one that makes green seeds.  All of their offspring produce green seeds.  When the offspring are crossed, their progeny produce &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/google-mystery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3071&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific discovery, not tautology</title>
		<link>http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/scientific-discovery-not-tautology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eukarya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I previously showed that the scientific discovery of a complex LECA was not a tautology.  DrREC replied: Mike Gene, do you recognize the difference between FIRST and LAST? L as in LUCA or LECA is LAST-The Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor, &#8230; <a href="http://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/scientific-discovery-not-tautology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designmatrix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6043597&amp;post=3063&amp;subd=designmatrix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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