More Evolution by Breaking Stuff

Building things -- major novelties, complex wonders, splendid inventions -- that's the problem Darwinism can't solve. But evolving advantages by tossing abilities aside, yes that's something unguided processes are capable of doing. Evolution is a fact, as they always tell us, but it hasn't been shown to have the inventor's touch.

In a study published in PLOS Genetics, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany have demonstrated that again ("Dependency can be an ev...