Tag: Junk DNA
Dan Graur: The Core Rationale for Claiming “Junk DNA”
This explains why many researchers, who are fully on board with evolution, nonetheless ignore Graur’s advice.
Here’s Another Defense of Junk DNA
The authors criticize the “ultra-Darwinian mindset,” which “perpetuates the notion that the genome, and life itself, is like a Swiss watch.”
Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us
From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.”
How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy
ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful.
Cinderella Story? Transposons Gain New Respect
Junk DNA has been getting redress for decades of ignominy. Now, retrotransposons and transposable elements may be next in line for a better reputation.