Natural Science Forum / Biology / Evolution / January 2008

Nature Genetics 40, 225 - 231 (2008)
Published online: 13 January 2008 | doi:10.1038/ng.2007.57
Genome-wide analysis of transcript isoform variation in humans
Tony Kwan, David Benovoy, Christel Dias, Scott Gurd, Cathy Provencher,

New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory: Evolution Not Random
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118134531.htm
Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude From
Multi-species Study

Given a double strand of DNA, it seems at first sight that the replication
process could start just as easily at one end as the other. Does this
actually happen in cell division? That is, is each end equally likely to be
the starting point or is there a preferred (or only) ...

A reexamination of the base of the tree of life:
Tree Of Life' Has Lost A Branch
According To Largest Genetic Comparison Of Higher Life Forms Ever
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080121112642.htm

Earth: A Borderline Planet for Life?
Our planet is changing before our eyes, and as a result, many species are
living on the edge. Yet Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the
beginning. New work by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for

The idea that "natural selection is of secondary importance" in
evolution has recently been recalled by Masatoshi Nei in "The New
Mutation Theory of Phenotypic Evolution" (Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA, July 24). He concludes by noting that:

Comparing Patterns of Natural Selection Across Species Using Selective
Signatures
B. Jesse Shapiro(1), Eric J. Alm(2)
1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America,

I've written a basic essay on species resurrection.
   -->  http://timtyler.org/species_resurrection/  <--
The essay starts:
Resurrecting species that had previously been thought extinct now seems

Lecture on Protein Ligand Modelling
http://bioisolutions.blogspot.com/2007/12/protein-ligand-modelling.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/227kty

I am sure this topic has been argued ad infinitum but I am new to the
argument so I am asking the question again.
It is my understanding that evolution theory says there is no such
thing as "directed evolution".