From News at Princeton comes this article Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective.

A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.

Why is this political?  Anything having to do with evolution and intelligent design is political.

The scientists do not know how the cellular machinery guiding this process may have originated, but they emphatically said it does not buttress the case for intelligent design, a controversial notion that posits the existence of a creator responsible for complexity in nature.

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