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After a very short exposure to the sickening bacteria, however, the worms began avoiding them in favor of other, less-deadly bacteria. The article from Cell discusses the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans and its ability to transmit…
Background For years, genetic drift has been overshadowed by a much more familiar concept: natural selection, or the survival of the fittest to reproduce. It’s easy to see why. After all, Darwin put the term…
Dr. Georgia Purdom, a molecular geneticist here at Answers in Genesis, sent me her thoughts on this troubling news item: When I first saw the news of human-monkey chimeras, I thought of Paul’s words in…
What do blood cells in a fossilized insect, Noah’s sons, dinosaur soft tissue, the Grand Canyon, and stars all have in common? They are all topics of AiG research projects. Our research department, with our…