by Robert Carter | Feb 11, 2025 | Science
Where do we place Mitochondrial Eve on the human family tree? How many mutations have occurred within the human mtDNA sequence? How much of that sequence is evolutionarily constrained? Are mtDNA mutations predictable? All this and more in this installment of Biblical...
by Robert Carter | Feb 4, 2025 | Science
Even though it was completed a quarter century ago, geneticists still struggle to estimate the number of genes in the human genome. They went from ‘hundreds of thousands’ to “22 thousand”, then more recently to “about 19,500”. The number, however, has just exploded....
by Robert Carter | Nov 26, 2024 | Science
Gregor Mendel was the father of modern genetics. He wrote his most important papers on the topic just a few years after Darwin published the Origin of Species. What people don’t realize is that Mendel’s papers did not only describe how traits are passed...
by Robert Carter | Sep 10, 2024 | Science
Mike Lynch and colleagues published a paper that is devastating to thousands of past studies on natural selection. By sequencing DNA from multiple natural populations over several years, they showed that the net effect of natural selection is “zero” for...
by Robert Carter | Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Neanderthals got their name from a valley that was, in turn, named after a beloved pastor and hymnwriter named Joachim Neander. Thus, since their first discovery, they have been associated with Christianity, believe it or not. Problem is, Neanderthals have been...
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