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Genetics

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 9, 2020
Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Genomics
Intelligent Design
stasis
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Ghost worms unchanged in form for 275 million years but show “highly distinct” genetics?

News
January 9, 2020
Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design, stasis
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One wants to ask, how distinct ARE the genomes of these species that all look the same? Would it be like mapping a cat’s genome and finding a German Shepherd’s GATTACA in there? What that level of distinction really tells us goes well beyond cats and German Shepherds. Or do the researchers really mean something less highly distinct? What? We search for analogies here. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2019
Categories
Genetics
Genomics
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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One of the biggest science stories of the last decade: The Descent of Man gets crowdsourced

News
December 21, 2019
Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Those old Descent of Man charts were sometimes fun, showing a bacterium ending up as some poor slob hunched over a workstation. Some sort of moral was always pounded into us by these tales, usually not an uplifting one. But real history is always better and more interesting. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 9, 2019
Categories
Darwinism
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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The larger lesson from the story of the Man With Two Fingerprints

News
December 9, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
2
Remember when DNA was Certain? When people were executed or spent life in prison on account of DNA evidence? “Your DNA is on it” was like Holy Writ. DNA was the guarantor of the Darwinian selfish gene. And now… The worst thing that ever happened to Darwinism was DNA mapping. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 15, 2019
Categories
Darwinism
Genetics
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
science education
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Bacteria harpoon DNA from their environment, to fight antibiotics

News
November 15, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
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Wait. What does this story remind us of? Oh yes, recently a writer at The Atlantic went so far as to express doubt about the claim of a Darwin-in-the-schools lobbyist that everyone needs to buy into their approach to evolution if we want to understand superbugs. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 18, 2019
Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Big Data study of termites forces rethink of their evolution

News
October 18, 2019
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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“Often, researchers construct a phylogeny using a single gene. This can, however, give an inaccurate picture of the relationship between species -- and can incorrectly place them.” So the industrious team studied “used up to 4065 genes from each termite species to construct the phylogeny.” Good for them. But it raises the question, why—in the age of Big Gene—doesn’t everyone do that, instead of loudly proclaiming an evolutionary history based on a handful of genes? One is much less inclined to dismiss the evidence of thousands than a handful. Read More ›