Tag: Junk DNA
Dan Graur, Darwin’s Reactionary
To call him this is an irony, I realize, since the University of Houston evolutionary biologist and Junk DNA diehard is a flaming left-winger.
Jonathan Wells: Zombie Science Keeps Pushing Junk DNA Myth
How evidence is interpreted is wrenched into line with the ideology. And this is what we mean by “zombie science.”
“Cookies on the Bottom Shelf”: Interrogating Jonathan Wells
We celebrated the release of Jonathan Wells’s new book Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution last month at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo.
Jonathan Wells: Biologist, Author of Zombie Science, and…Ex-Con?
Why is understanding Dr. Wells as a person important? Because in assessing anyone as a guide to anything, integrity must count for a great deal.
The Genome and Its “Junk” Landscape? Zombie Science Detonates an Evolutionary Icon
The idea that DNA should be full of evolutionary detritus has come under withering fire from a range of scientific research.
Broccoli and the Myth of Junk DNA
This brings the question of supposed “Junk DNA” home — home, literally, to your family’s dinner table.
Three Ways that Transposable Elements Demolish Evolutionary Theory
These “jumping genes” are segments of junk DNA that insert themselves at random in our genomes. That is the evolutionary interpretation.
Epigenomics “Gold Rush” Is Underway
Intelligent design can take ownership of the next level in the hierarchy of biological organization.
With Fresh Funding, ENCODE Team Continues Demolition of “Junk DNA” Myth
NIH just funded five centers to explore what the “dark matter genome” (the non-protein-coding part) is doi
Prince or Pauper? Researchers Find Functional Pseudogene in Fruit Fly
If a gene is a pseudo-pseudogene, it is not a pseudogene. It might be a gene.