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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...

Paradigm shifts are rare but paradigm shafts are common. A paradigm shaft is when a scientist describes a false paradigm that supposedly rul...

Nature Methods is one of the journals in Nature Portfolio published by Springer Nature. Its focus is novel methods in the life sciences. ...

Functional DNA is best defined as DNA that is currently under purifying selection. In other words, it can't be deleted without affecting...

I decided to edit the Wikipedia article on non-coding DNA by adding new sections on "Noncoding genes," "Promoters and regula...

John Mattick has a new book coming out in August where he defends the notion that most of our genome is full of genes for functonal noncodin...

The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a pretigious society of workers in the field of molecular evolution. I am a member...

A group of scientists, mostly from the University of Ghent 1 (Belgium), have posted a paper on bioRxiv. Lorenzi, L., Chiu, H.-S., Cobos, F...

I've been complaining for years about how opponents of junk DNA misrepresent and distort the scientific literature. The same complaints ...

I had to completely reorganize chapter 2 in order to move population genetics closer to the beginning of the book and reduce the number of w...

My book is progressing slowly. The main task is to reduce it to about 120,000 words and that's proving to be a lot more difficult that I...

This post is mostly about a recent paper published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & Biomed Sci where two philosophers pre...

A group of scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM, USA) and their collaborators in Vienna (Austria) and Lethbridge...

There are many junk DNA skeptics who claim that most of our genome is functional. Some of them have even questioned whether pseudogenes are ...