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Article: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS SCORE ONE FOR DARWIN.(Higher Education)(UO researchers reproduce a complex genetic feat that challenges "intelligent design")
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
By resurrecting a protein that disappeared 450 million years ago, a trio of University of Oregon researchers have shown how evolution could have produced the amazingly complex biological systems that some have claimed are evidence of "intelligent design."
The research, published today in Science magazine, provides an evolutionary path for the intricate "lock-and-key" relationship between a hormone and its biological receptor. Proponents of intelligent design contend that such relationships are evidence of "irreducible complexity," meaning they couldn't have evolved from the random changes that fuel natural selection ...