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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...