What mechanism can it be that results in the production
of homologous organs, the same 'patterns' in spite of their
not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this
question in 1938, and it has not been answered.
Evolutionary biologist Gavin de Beer,
Homology: An Unsolved Problem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
About the Authors
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Stephen C. Meyer earned his Ph.D. in the
Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University for a dissertation on the history of
origin-of-life biology, the logical structure of Darwin's argument and the methodology of
the historical sciences. He also holds degrees in Physics and Geology. He is currently the
Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery
Institute in Seattle. Previously he worked as a professor at Whitworth College
and a geophysicist with the Atlantic Richfield Company. He has co-authored or
edited two other books: Darwinism, Design, and
Public Education (Michigan State University Press) and Science and
Evidence of Design in the Universe. He has authored articles in
scientific journals such as the Proceedings of the Biological Society of
Washington and Trends in Ecology and Evolution and in
scientific books published with Cambridge University Press and Wessex
Institute of Technology Press. He has also written many editorials on
scientific topics for publications such as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal
and The Los Angeles Times. |
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Scott Minnich
holds a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He is currently associate
professor of microbiology at the University of Idaho. Previously, Dr. Minnich
was an assistant professor at Tulane University. In addition, he did postdoctoral
research with Austin Newton at Princeton University and with Arthur Aronson at
Purdue University. Dr. Minnich's research interests are temperature
regulation of Y. enterocolitca gene expression and coordinate reciprocal
expression of flagellar and virulence genes. Scott Minnich is widely published in technical journals including Journal
of Bacteriology, Molecular Microbiology, Journal of Molecular
Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal
of Microbiological Method, Food Technology, and the Journal of
Food Protection. |
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Jonathan Moneymaker is a freelance
technical writer, specializing in making complex topics easy for the non-expert
to understand. His work has been used in classes and workshops at Boeing,
Ford Motor Company, People Management International, and Walt Disney World
Company (Disney University). Usually preferring to work in the background,
his credited work includes the lighthearted look at the origins
debate, What's Darwin Got To Do With It? His whimsical touch, analytical
skill, and desire for clarity and readability all played key roles in writing this book. |
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Paul A. Nelson is a
philosopher of science who received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1998), where
he specialized in the philosophy of biology and evolutionary theory. His
dissertation, “Common Descent, Generative Entrenchment, and the Epistemology of
Evolutionary Inference,” critically evaluates the theory of common descent.
He is currently a Fellow of the Discovery Institute, an Adjunct Professor at
Biola University, and a member of the Society for Developmental Biology
and the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social
Studies of Biology. He has published articles in such journals
as Biology & Philosophy, Zygon, and Rhetoric and
Public Affairs, and scientific and philosophical papers in
technical anthologies from MIT Press and Michigan State University Press. |
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Ralph Seelke received his undergraduate
education at Clemson University (BS, Microbiology, 1973). He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology
from the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in 1981, was a
postdoctoral researcher at the Mayo Clinic until 1983, and has been an Associate
Professor or Professor in the Department of Biology and Earth Sciences at the
University of Wisconsin-Superior since 1989. Dr. Seelke's research in experimental
evolution has been well-regarded, and in 2004 he was a Visiting Scholar in the
Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford University Medical School,
conducting research to further our understanding of evolution. An authority on
evolution's capabilities and limitations in producing new functions in
bacteria, he has co-author eight publications in such journals
as Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Journal of
Bacteriology, and Molecular and General Genetics. Prof. Seelke is a
member of the American Society for Microbiology. |