Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Genetic Load, Neutral Theory, and Junk DNA
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The average human newborn has about 130 new mutations that were not found in either parent [ Mutation Rates ]. These mutations accumulate as...
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Genetic Load
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If the average rate of deleterious mutations is about 1 per individual per generation then the species can't survive. It means that mo...
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Monday's Molecule #144
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This is another one of those times when there's no "molecule" that provides a clue to a Nobel Laureate. Your task is to ide...
The Hat Gene
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Humans have always had a urge to cover their heads with various forms of headgear. There must be a hat gene in our genomes and it probably...
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Bill Maher on Vaccination
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Bill Maher has attempted to clarify his position on vaccination [ Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having ]. His blog is a lot like his T...
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Friday, November 13, 2009
timmy
me
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Ms Sandwalk just got an iPhone. She's thrilled by all the things it can do and I'm happy for her. However, most of the things an i...
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Where do we come from? Where are we going?
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This is the runner-up in Discover magazine's "Evolution in Two Minutes" contest. It was selected by PZ Myers [ The Winner: ...
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The
Theory of Evolution
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Here's one of the submissions to Discovery Magazine's "Evolution in Two Minutes" contest. It's the one chosen by vi...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Three Options
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Here's a multiple choice question from Barry Arrington on Uncommon Descent [ Is a Modern Myth of the Metals the Answer? ]. He's c...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Nobel Laureate: Johannes Fibiger
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1926 "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma" Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1...
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Was Charles Darwin an Agnostic Atheist?
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Let me say, right at the start, that I really don't care whether Charles Darwin was a deist, an agnostic, an atheist, or something els...
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November 11, 2009
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Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. It's a day to remember that war is evil and horrible. It's a day to remember that war represe...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Positive Argument for Intelligent Design Creationism
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I've often been critical of the arguments made by IDiots Intelligent Design Creationists. They consist mostly of claims that evolutio...
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Monday's Molecule #143: Winner
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The creature is a nematode, specifically a Soybean cyst nematode. The relevant Nobel Prize was to Johannes Fibiger who got for it "di...
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PZ Myers Gets It Wrong
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Discover magazine sponsored a contest where you had to produce a two minute video explaining evolution. The judge was PZ Myers. Here'...
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