Tag: Annual Review of Genetics
Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design
These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design.
Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”
As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.”
Adam and the Genome and “Nonfunctional” Pseudogenes
Venema cites the vitellogenin pseudogene as supposedly demonstrating common ancestry between humans and birds, such as chickens.