Tuesday, September 24, 2019

How many protein-coding genes in the human genome? (2)

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It's difficult to know how many protein-coding genes there are in the human genome because there are several different ways of counting ...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Gerald Fink promotes a new definition of a gene

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This is the 2019 Killian lecture at MIT, delivered in April 2019 by Gerald Fink . Fink is an eminent scientist who has done excellent work o...
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Sunday, September 08, 2019

Contingency, selection, and the long-term evolution experiment

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I'm a big fan of Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) and of Zachary Blount's work in particular. [ Strolling ...
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Friday, August 30, 2019

Evolution by Accident

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Evolution by Accident v1.43 ©2006 Laurence A. Moran This essay has been transferred here from an old server that has been decommissioned. ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

First complete sequence of a human chromosome

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A paper announcing the first complete sequence of a human chromosome has recently been posted on the bioRxiv server. Miga, K. H., Koren, S....
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Sunday, August 25, 2019

How much of the human genome has been sequenced?

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It's been more than seven years since I posted information on how much of the human genome has been sequenced [ How Much of Our Genome I...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
7. Going forward

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This the last of a series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Arlin has established ...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5.5 Synthesis apologetics

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This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5.4. Taking neo-Darwinism seriously

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This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post...
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Monday, August 05, 2019

Religion vs science (junk DNA): a blast from the past

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I was checking out the science books in our local bookstore the other day and I came across Evolution 2.0 by Perry Marshall. It was publish...
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Friday, August 02, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
6. What "limits" adaptation?

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This is part of a continuing series of posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. In this post...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5.3. How history is distorted.

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This is the ninth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Click on the...
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Monday, July 22, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5.2. The Modern Synthesis of 1959

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This is the eighth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionary...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation. 5.1. Thinking about theories

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This is the seventh in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionar...
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Saturday, July 13, 2019

Reactionary fringe meets mutation-biased adaptation.
5. Beyond the "Synthesis" debate

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This is the sixth in a series of guest posts by Arlin Stoltzfus on the role of mutation as a dispositional factor in evolution. Reactionary...
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