Tag: chromosomes
Adam and Eve and “Mainstream Science”
“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.”
Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind
Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.”
Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums
It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim.
DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another
It is during the latter stages of the production of an animal oocyte that many functionalities of what some disparage as “junk DNA” take center stage.
Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features
In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’”