Tag: Junk DNA
Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA
A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.”
Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology
Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones.
Four Troublesome Trend Lines for Evolution
Taken as a totality, they make “zero sense in the context” of classic evolutionary theory.
Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”
Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.”
Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”
The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work.