Tag: Paul Nelson
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.
Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism
Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology.
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.
How Universal Common Descent Survives Failed Predictions
The prediction Paul Nelson discusses here is that there would turn out to be a single universal genetic code.
Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry
The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat.
