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 | Feb 13, 2024 | Science
No, the size of the genome has not changed, but the number of genes we thought it contains certainly has. After lots of double checking, there are fewer known protein coding genes today (~19,000) than there were when the human genome was first published, and even that...
by Robert Carter | Jun 8, 2021 | Science
Location: Champ’s Clock Shop, Douglasville, GA Dr Rob describes a contentious idea: the Waiting Time Problem. Mathematical simulations tells us that the rise of specific new mutations would take a fantastically long time. This is a serious challenge to...
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