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Miracles are not miracles to evolutionary theorists

Science 19 September 2014: Vol. 345 no. 6203 pp. 1443-1445 DOI: 10.1126/science.345.6203.1443 No miracles Excerpt: “There’s a reason these crows make tools and other birds don’t,” he says. “It’s not a miracle.” THAT SENTENCE, along with the even shorter phrase “no miracles,” is a favorite of Gray’s. The power of evolution “to explain many things,” Miracles are not miracles to evolutionary theorists

A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology and Evolution (excerpt)

A single note accurately represents what is known about the epigenetic effects of nutrient chemical-dependent (i.e., glucose-regulated) survival, growth, and the advent of sexual reproduction in microbes like yeasts. It extends my model from microbes to man via the common molecular mechanisms