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A junk-filled genome Review of: What’s In Your Genome? 90% of Your Genome Is Junk, by Laurence A. Moran, 2023. University of Toronto Pre...

Here's an excerpt from his review. In his new book "What’s in Your Genome?", Laurence A. Moran shows that all the resear...

If you are interested in learning more about junk DNA here's some links to relevant information. Prologue Chapter 1: Introducin...

Gert Korthof thinks that the current view of evolution is incomplete and he's looking for a better explanation. He just finished readin...

In last chapter of my book I try to convince readers that biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolution are sloppy processes and the idea o...

Francis Collins, and many others, believe that the concept of junk DNA is outmoded because recent discoveries have shown that most of the hu...

In September 2012, the ENCODE researchers published a bunch of papers claiming to show that 80% of the human genome was functional. They hel...

I think there are no more than 5,000 noncoding genes but many scientists claim that there are tens of thousands of newly discovered noncodin...

This chapter describes gene families in the human genome. I explain how new genes are born by gene duplication and how they die by deletion ...

Here's a link to the summary of what's in Chapter 6. The important topics are the correct definition of "gene" and the num...

The endorsements for my book are in. One of the last steps in publishing a book is to collect endorsements—favorable statements from f...

The last few weeks have been hectic. I got the first page proofs about a month ago and my job was to proof read those pages and prepare the ...

Check out this website, What's in Your Genome if you want to see a preview of my book (Preface, Prologue, part of Chapter 1). The ...