Tag: Nature Reviews Genetics
Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design
These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design.
Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”
Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities.
Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”
As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.”
Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”
A pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is.
Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right
Many studies show that degradative mutations in APOB cause decreased cholesterol.