Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" proposed, in a theory he called "natural selection," that new species could develop through chance modifications selectively made permanent by survival of the fittest. In his day the complexity of molecular biology was unknown. Does Darwin's theory conform to modern knowledge of cell behaviour?
My brother, Ken, is a retired clinical biochemist and pathologist. He and his friend Skip Maxwell, his former professor of mathematics, have written an answer to this question. Like all scientific papers it is relevant to many areas of study.
They list as key words: blood; hemostasis; coagulation; Darwin; evolution; natural selection; chance; modification; mutation; amino acid residues; cell divisions; codons; probability; odds against; Poisson and Binomial.
Their scientific paper is a mathematical discussion of probabilities. Even if you are not an expert in statistics you would be able to understand what they say about the validity of the theory of Darwin. One day soon it will be available on the web. Keep watching this page and I will tell you where to look for it as soon as it is available. Darwin.
Created by: ranney@hsfx.ca 2011/10/28
Revised by: ranney@hsfx.ca 2012/04/02