Category: Genetics
If turtles are closer to birds than to lizards and snakes, genetically, then …
| May 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Genetics, News |
Doesn’t this raise some questions about conventional accounts of evolution? more
If geneticist James Shapiro is never respectable again, philosopher James Barham is not to blame
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under academic freedom, Genetics, Intelligent Design |
Doubting Darwin is. more
Are humans riddled with rare genetic variants?
| May 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Human evolution, News |
“The findings suggest that researchers will need to revamp their current methods for deciphering gene function, … ” more
Y chromosome durability: AKA secret sex worries of science writers
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Genetics, News |
“Y chromosomes are here to stay, and are not the genetic wasteland that they were once thought to be.” more
David Abel: Formalism not only describes, but preceded, prescribed, organized, and continues to govern and predict Physicality.
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
“Chance, necessity and mere constraints cannot steer, program or optimize algorithmic/ computational success to provide desired nontrivial utility.” more
He said it, so we didn’t have to: Telling a human from an ape
| May 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, News |
“It is not that difficult to tell a human from an ape, after all. The human is the one walking, talking, sweating, praying, building, reading, trading, crying, ” more
DNA: More than one percent of Scottish men are direct descendants of the Saharan Berber and Tuareg tribes?
| April 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Genetics, News |
Yet the Scots manage to be culturally distinctive, as anyone who has lived through Robbie Burns Day in small-town Canada will know. more
New York Times piece: “There’s not a grain of real science in it that’s worth putting on the front page”
| March 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Mind, Neuroscience, News |
… “that irritating combination of sophomoric facetiousness and pious credulity that is unique to science journalism” more
This just in: We are 99.5% gorilla …
| March 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Human evolution, News |
“… much of the human genome more closely resembles the gorilla than it does the chimpanzee genome.” more
Three dimensional chromosome arrangements can affect genetics
| March 2, 2012 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Genetics, News |
The Darwinist needs to get out more. more
“At least 1 percent of human genes can be shut down without causing serious disease.”
| February 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Medicine, News |
Will they end up being called “vestigial genes”? more
Jerry Coyne’s hilarious takedown of Chris Mooney’s new “yer politics is in yer genes” book
| February 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Genetics, News |
“‘Compelling evolutionary logic,’ of course, is not data: it’s just the perceived ability to make a convincing story. ” more
Transposable elements are the new “junk DNA”? May have function ….
| February 8, 2012 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Genetics, News |
“It seems, then, that there is positive selection for transposable elements at these sites, suggesting that insertion has a beneficial effect on the host.” more
Remember that Fate of Darwinism paper? Here’s what it says on Dawkins’ selfish gene …
| February 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Genetics, News |
“…. When all other things are actually made equal by spelling out in detail the developmental process by which genes express traits, any self-replicative privilege assigned to genes disappears completely.” more
Why you are not your genes, and even your genes are not “your genes”
| February 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Epigenetics, Genetics, News |
In those days, Nobelist Walter Gilbert, extolling the Human Genome Project, would hold up a data CD and inform his audience, “This is you.” A genome decoded. But was it you? Or anybody? more
ID Foundations 15(c) — A FAQ on Front-Loading, thanks to Genomicus
| February 1, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cell biology, Genetics, ID Foundations, Origin Of Life |
Onlookers, Geno concludes for the moment with FAQ’s: ____________________ Geno: >> A Testable ID Hypothesis: Front-loading, part C In the last two articles on front-loading, I explained what the front-loading hypothesis is all about and some research questions we can ask from a front-loading perspective. This article will be an FAQ about the front-loading hypothesis.… more
ID Foundations, 15(a): A Testable ID Hypothesis — Front-Loading, part A (a guest-post by Genomicus)
| January 20, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Biology, Design inference, Genetics, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design |
(Series on Front-loading continues, here) As we continue the ID Foundations series, it will be necessary to reflect on a fairly wide range of topics, more than any one person can cover. So, when the opportunity came up to put Front-Loading on the table from a knowledgeable advocate of it, Genomicus, I asked him if… more
What Is Life? Part III: What Might an Organism Be, If Not a Machine?
| January 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, News |
“You cannot explain the physical interactions occurring in living things through the direct application of physical laws alone.” more
There is no brilliance in mechanism and reductionism any more.
| December 26, 2011 | Posted by News under Genetics, News |
Mechanists and reductionists just bypass the hard math questions and award themselves a prize, cheered on by their equally tenured fellows, and increasingly irrelevant to what happens. more
A bioscience newsletter that isn’t spouting Darwin?
| December 26, 2011 | Posted by News under Epigenetics, Genetics, News |
Maybe the newsletter staff will hereafter be harassed to Darwin pieties in order to prove their submission, and it will be interesting to see how that turns out. more