Tag: DNA sequence
Powerful Protein-Folding Algorithm AlphaFold Foiled by Singletons
We now know that biological information involves far more than just an organism’s proteome.
In the NGSS, a Dogmatic Standard on Evolution
Inaccurate teaching about evolution is widespread, as Jonathan Wells’s review of textbooks shows.
Do Shared ERVs Support Common Ancestry?
In my previous article, I discussed the background of one of the most commonly made arguments for primate common ancestry. In this article, I want to examine the first of the three layers of evidence offered by a popular-level article written about this subject.
Guy Walks Into a Bar and Thinks He’s a Chimpanzee: The Unbearable Lightness of Chimp-Human Genome Similarity
I am often struck by how the topic of evolution in general, and chimp/human ancestry in particular, can be an immediate conversation opener that just as quickly becomes a conversation closer.
Darwin’s Failed Predictions, Slide 10: “The myth of 1% human-chimp genetic differences” (from JudgingPBS.com)
PBS asserts that “a schoolchild can cite the figure perhaps most often called forth in support of human/chimp common ancestry — namely, that we share almost 99 percent of our DNA with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee.” Such an argument raises two questions.