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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 18, 2020
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Culture, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Jerry Coyne jumps into the Dawkins eugenics row

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2020
Culture, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Contrary to Coyne's and Dawkin's claims, dog breeding is DEvolution for dogs. It usually works that way, as Michael Behe points out in Darwin Devolves. Dogs are bred by humans at the expense of their genetic health. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 9, 2020
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Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Ghost worms unchanged in form for 275 million years but show “highly distinct” genetics?

Denyse O'Leary
January 9, 2020
Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design, stasis
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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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 2, 2020
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'Junk DNA', Genetics, Intelligent Design
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At The Scientist: “Junk RNA” is top science news in 2019

Denyse O'Leary
January 2, 2020
'Junk DNA', Genetics, Intelligent Design
A "completely unknown biology," says a researcher. “There really is no framework in biology as we know it today that would explain how RNA and glycans could ever be in the same place at the same time" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2019
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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

Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2019
Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 9, 2019
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Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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The larger lesson from the story of the Man With Two Fingerprints

Denyse O'Leary
December 9, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 15, 2019
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Darwinism, Genetics, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
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Bacteria harpoon DNA from their environment, to fight antibiotics

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
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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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 18, 2019
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Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Big Data study of termites forces rethink of their evolution

Denyse O'Leary
October 18, 2019
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
“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 ›