tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post7400476691763855431..comments2024-03-28T00:36:36.460-07:00Comments on The Tree of Life: This press release deserves some sort of award ...Jonathan Eisenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-20525693370814064612008-11-13T15:58:00.000-08:002008-11-13T15:58:00.000-08:00All I can figure is they're either describing a pr...All I can figure is they're either describing a protein network that is robust against disruption or that the protein folding/arrangement is in some way self-catalytic. But neither of these would be new or change evo theory. If they think they found a protein that interacts with it's own genes, they sure aren't clear about it...Matt DiLeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602997050973123349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-49650937851844631092008-11-13T13:24:00.000-08:002008-11-13T13:24:00.000-08:00I saw this release and was really confused too. Th...I saw this release and was really confused too. The claims they are making don't fit well with what I know. So I tracked down the paper that they pulled this out of (<A HREF="http://www.citeulike.org/user/GeeSharpMinor/article/3507799" REL="nofollow">Mutagenic Evidence for the Optimal Control of Evolutionary Dynamics</A>, Chakrabarti et al., 2008) and couldn't understand how it supports these claims. It may be because I don't know optimal control theory and the paper is written from a very physics perspective, but I suspect that these claims are really unsupported extrapolation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-90445922030401662912008-11-13T07:46:00.000-08:002008-11-13T07:46:00.000-08:00thanks ryannot sure why those did not show up when...thanks ryan<BR/><BR/>not sure why those did not show up when I tried to search for people writing about thisJonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-48540414799161364582008-11-13T04:06:00.000-08:002008-11-13T04:06:00.000-08:00A frustrating press release (or, adaptation is not...<A HREF="http://genomicron.blogspot.com/2008/11/frustrating-press-release-or-adaptation.html" REL="nofollow">A frustrating press release (or, adaptation is not random).</A> (Genomicron)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/11/prediction_selfpromoting_hype.php" REL="nofollow">Prediction: self-promoting hype meets interdisciplinary ignorance</A> (Pharyngula)T Ryan Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17028390880937952573noreply@blogger.com