Over time, research has strengthened the basic tenets of evolution, especially as advances in molecular genetics have allowed biologists to read the history recorded in the DNA of animals and plants.
Once we have accepted the basic tenets of evolution, no matter how much we marvel at the "tangled bank," we have to accept that it is a process that is wholly indifferent, utterly neutral, completely devoid of any sense of morality or ethics.
Roughgarden, a biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, had no intention of challenging one of Darwin's fundamental tenets of evolution.
The study underscores several important tenets of evolution, says evolutionary biologist Michael Lynch of the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
We agree with Almquist and Cronin's (1988) warning that a traditional college education may be unable to educate students about the tenets of evolution.
Israel's minister of education, Gideon Sa'ar, has fired his chief scientist for making comments "denying the tenets of evolution and global warming," according to the Israeli daily Haaretz.
If students do not accept the tenets of evolution, there is often a corresponding lack in scientific literacy, understanding of the nature of science, research literacy, and engagement in academia in general (Alters and Nelson 2002).
Our aim is to present only the basic tenets of evolution at the molecular level, and such type of simplification - a close relationship between the DNA information and the peptide structure - is necessary in the context of this board game.
Given the inclusion of anthropology courses in general education curriculum at the university-level, we conclude that this situation may further exacerbate the misunderstanding of the basic tenets of evolution that university students have been repeatedly shown to demonstrate.
As the tenets of evolution would predict, the substrate specificity and prevalence of Y-Family polymerases are highly correlated with the abundance of naturally occurring DNA lesions.
