Tag: pseudogenes
Dawkins: A “Perfect Hierarchy” in the Tree of Life?
The “hierarchy” that Dawkins is referring to in the video is the tree of life that evolutionary biologists can generate.
Another “Junk DNA” Icon Bites the Dust
Casey Luskin examines a paper which argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous?
Collateral Damage: Mutations Decrease Fitness in More Ways than One
If mutations are the raw material for evolution, they are like explosives with unpredictable effects.
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.”