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Mendel’s Law of Exponential Trait Combination

Mendel’s Law of Exponential Trait Combination

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...
The Incredible Shrinking Human Genome

The Incredible Shrinking Human Genome

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...
The Waiting Time Problem

The Waiting Time Problem

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...