Tag: natural selection

Darwin: Still controversial after all these years

A year shy of its 150th anniversary, is Darwin’s theory of natural selection still fit for survival? Although a century-and-a-half’s study has bolstered the theory’s standing among scientists, some sections of society remain unconvinced and even hostile towards Darwinism, threatening to overshadow next year’s celebrations. Image: alistairmcmillan

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Is information essential for life?

We are used to thinking about how evolution selects for a wide range of physical traits, but the idea that natural selection could favour a quality as abstract as information content takes some getting used to. It’s something that physicist William Bialek at Princeton University takes in his stride, by thinking about organisms as computers. Image: Matthew Fang

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