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"Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?": James Shapiro Replies

More Evidence on the Real Nature of Evolutionary DNA Change

Posted: 1/6/12 11:15 AM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/more-evidence-on-the-real_b_1158228.html

Posted January 8, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/bacterial-antibiotic-resistance_b_1192507.html

Living Cells, Complex Systems and the Economy Posted: 1/13/12 02:34 PM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/living-cells-complex-syst_b_1204827.html

"Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?": James Shapiro Replies http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/01/is_james_shapir_1055151.html

DNA as Poetry: Multiple Messages in a Single Sequence

Posted: 01/24/2012 6:05 pm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/dna-as-poetry-multiple-me_b_1229190.html

The Wall Street Journal and Climate Change: Where Are the Facts?

Posted January 30, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/the-wall-street-journal-a_6_b_1239203.html

Purposeful, Targeted Genetic Engineering in Immune System Evolution

Posted: February 6, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/genetic-engineering-immune-system-evolution_b_1255771.html

What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution?

Posted February 16, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/what-is-the-key-to-a-real_b_1280685.html

Response to Jerry Coyne, Posted February 19, 2012 http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/a-colleague-wrongfully-disses-modern-evolutionary-theory/#comment-186010

Further Comments on 'What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution?'

Posted: February 23, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/theory-of-evolution_b_1294315.html

Theory of evolution

Submitted by Jim Shapiro on February 24, 2012 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/explananda/201202/is-evolution-just-theory/comments

Barbara McClintock, X-Rays, and Self-Aware, Self-Healing Cells

Posted March 8, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/barbara-mcclintock-x-rays_b_1322879.html

Barbara McClintock, Genome Self-Repair and Cell Cognition: A Revolutionary Vision for the Future of Biology

Posted March 9, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/barbara-mcclintock_b_1223618.html?ref=science

Cell Cognition and Cell Decision-Making

Posted March 19, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/cell-cognition_b_1354889.html

Your Life Depends on Immune Cells Doing the 'Impossible': Purposeful, Targeted DNA Engineering (Part 2)

Posted April 3, 2012 | 1:36 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/immune-cells-dna-engineering_b_1395040.html

Jerry Coyne Fails to Understand Yet Again

Posted April 10, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/jerry-coyne-fails-to-unde_b_1411144.html

What Is the Best Way to Deal With Supernaturalists in Science and Evolution?

Posted April 16, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/evolution-debate_b_1425133.html

Natural Genetic Engineering and Natural Selection: Perplexing Delusions of Certain Neo-Darwinist Advocates

Posted April 23, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/natural-genetic-engineeri_b_1442309.html

Natural Genetic Engineering and Vitalism: What's the Difference?

Posted: 05/15/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/natural-genetic-engineering_b_1511451.html

Variation and Selection: What's the Difference? What Are the Issues?

Posted: 05/17/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/variation-and-selection-w_b_1522314.html

How Natural Genetic Engineering Solves Problems in Protein Evolution

Posted: 05/24/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/genetic-engineering_b_1541180.html

Interspecific Hybridization and Introgression in Animal Evolution

Posted: 05/27/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/interspecific-hybridizati_b_1549324.html

Cells Executing Sophisticated Search Strategies (and How Our Physicist Friends Helped Us Learn About It) Posted May 31, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/cell-research_b_1559647.html

Can Cells Bias Natural Genetic Engineering Toward Useful Evolutionary Outcomes? Posted: 06/06/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/natural-genetic-engineering-evolutionary-outcomes_b_1572730.html

Network Evolution: How Natural Genetic Engineering Builds Circuits in the Genome Posted: 06/14/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/network-evolution-genetics_b_1594000.html

Experimental Evolution: How Can We Watch Natural Genetic Engineering in Real Time? Posted: 06/25/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/experimental-evolution-ho_b_1619171.html

Experimental Evolution II: More Ways to Watch Natural Genetic Engineering in Real Time Posted: 07/02/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/natural-genetic-engineering_b_1638823.html

Epigenetics I: Turning a DNA Packaging Problem Into a Developmental Control System Posted: 07/09/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/epigenetics-i-turning-a-d_b_1654549.html

Epigenetics II: Cellular Memory, Imprinting, and Targeting Genome Configuration With RNA Posted: 07/13/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/epigenetics-ii-cellular-m_b_1668820.html

Epigenetics III: Epigenetic Control of Natural Genetic Engineering and Environmental Inputs into Evolutionary Change Posted: 07/18/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/epigenetics-iii-epigeneti_b_1683713.html

Legitimate and Illegitimate Recombination: Targeting Homologous Exchange for Multiple Adaptive Purposes Posted: 08/02/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/legitimate-and-illegitima_b_1728003.html

Take 2: Why Genetic Recombination Is Not Random, and How Cells Take Advantage of Non-randomness Posted: 08/07/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/genetic-recombination-not-random_b_1743647.html

Does Natural Selection Really Explain What Makes Evolution Succeed? Posted: 08/12/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/does-natural-selection-evolution_b_1769524.html

Cell Mergers and the Evolution of New Life Forms: Symbiogenesis Rather Than Selection Posted: 08/21/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/cell-mergers-evolution-life_b_1807742.html

The Distinct Roles of Selection, Horizontal Transfer and Natural Genetic Engineering in Dangerous Superbug Evolution Posted: 08/29/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/the-distinct-roles-of-sel_b_1831996.html

Dan Hartl, Sewall Wright, and the Role of "Ecological Opportunity" in Evolution Posted: 09/12/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/dan-hartl-sewall-wright-a_b_1863672.html

Bob Dylan, ENCODE and Evolutionary Theory: The Times They Are A-Changin' Posted: 09/12/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/bob-dylan-encode-and-evol_b_1873935.html

Further Thoughts on the ENCODE/Junk DNA Debates Posted: 09/18/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/further-thoughts-on-the-e_b_1893984.html

Mobile DNA Repeats and Transcriptional Formatting of the Mammalian Genome in Evolution

Posted: 09/22/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/mobile-dna-repeats-and-tr_b_1906135.html

Could Bill Nye Have Done More to Keep Creationism out of the Classroom?

Posted: 09/27/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/could-bill-nye-have-done-_b_1919558.html

The Evolutionary Importance of Horizontal DNA Transfer into Animal Germ Lines

Posted: 10/03/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/the-evolutionary-importan_b_1936059.html

Union of Concerned Scientists Launches a New Center for Science and Democracy

Posted: 10/07/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/union-of-concerned-scient_b_1946734.html

Sociobacteriology: Small Cells Talking And Listening -- And How It May Affect You If You Go Under the Knife

Posted: 10/16/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/sociobacteriology-small-c_b_1963701.html

Evelyn Witkin, Jean Weigle, the SOS Response and How E. Coli Generates Mutations in Response to UV Irradiation

Posted: 10/20/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/evelyn-witkin-jean-weigle_b_1992789.html

Inter-Kingdom Horizontal DNA Transfer in all directions: Infectious bacteria evolve by acquiring protein domains from eukaryotic hosts Posted: 11/06/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/interkingdom-horizontal-d_b_2081420.html

Why the 'Gene' Concept Holds Back Evolutionary Thinking

Posted: 11/30/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/why-the-gene-concept-hold_b_2207245.html

Inconvenient Truths: Why Are Self-Styled Defenders of Evolution so Resistant to Lessons From Molecular Genetics?

Posted: 12/04/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/inconvenient-truths-why-a_b_2228277.html

In Memorium Carl Woese (1928-2012), the Most Important Evolutionary Biologist of the 20th Century

Posted: 01/28/2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/in-memorium-carl-woese-19_b_2558605.html

What Natural Genetic Engineering Does and Does Not Mean Posted: 02/28/2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/what-natural-genetic-engi_b_2783419.html

Life and Death Decisions by Cells, Investigated Under Life-threatening Conditions During WWII

Posted: 03/14/2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/important-work-on-cell-co_b_2871689.html

Roger Ebert and Evolution - What Does the DNA Tell Us? Posted: 04/05/2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-a-shapiro/roger-ebert-evolution_b_3021641.htm