Tag: human genome
Fact Check: New “Complete” Chimp Genome Shows 14.9 Percent Difference from Human Genome
I suspect that this radical finding has implications — for human exceptionalism and more — that people will be discussing for a long time.
Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology
A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA.
New “Long Story” Short: “ERVs, Pseudogenes, & Onions”
Intelligent design is a “science stopper”? It “makes people stupid”? These are among the claims of some smart scientists who ought to know better.
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.
An Object Lesson in How Not to Do Science
The story the public is told is contrary to evidence but scientists have to keep telling it because otherwise the wrong people might benefit.