Tag: function
Longevity as Evidence of Original Design
A general principle for any designed system is that it functions optimally when it is used or able to perform in the way it was originally designed.
Hey, Please Ask Dawkins About His “Junk DNA” Goof
Our friend Brian Keating, a cosmologist at UC San Diego, does wonderful interviews. A particularly fun recent one was with Richard Dawkins.
How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function: Evolutionary Tales Fail to Convince
Earlier this year there was a flurry of stories about how “junk DNA” may explain why humans don’t have tails.
Defending Our Literature Survey on Function for Junk DNA
Our list only scratches the surface of the literature, and you can’t negate the existence of that body of literature through a few complaints.
Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function
When you mess with the “junk,” the result is problems. That doesn’t sound like junk DNA to me.