Tag: genetics
At Bridalveil Fall — Michael Denton on the Wonder of Water
Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet.
Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No
One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000.
Darwin’s Point: No Evidence for Common Ancestry of Humans with Monkeys
The bump was originally discovered by the celebrated British sculptor Thomas Woolner, who informed Charles Darwin about it.
Eric Metaxas on Canaanite DNA and “Fake News”
When ideologies reign, one of the first victims, invariably, is truth. The narrative is supreme, and it deforms how information is interpreted.
For Culturally Illiterate Science Reporters, Canaanite DNA Yields Occasion to Slap Bible Around
The science story itself is fascinating and to all appearances solid. How will they spin it?