Epigenesis vs mutagenesis: Who’s a mutant?
Epigenesis: What People Don’t Understand about Epigenetics Epigenetics is about how DNA determines development, not the contrary. Published on February 8, 2014 by Christopher Badcock, Ph.D. in The […]
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The wrong picture of our evolution
“We have built a picture of our evolution based on the morphology of fossils and it was wrong.” I’ve repeatedly cited the latest literature, especially […]
Creation vs bird watchers and butterfly collectors
Dare to Be 100: Splitters and Lumpers 12/12/2013 10:54 am by Walter M. Bortz II, M.D. Excerpt: The appropriate term for this bottom’s up approach is […]
Whale-specific mutations or natural genetic engineering? (revisited)
Whale-specific mutations or natural genetic engineering? Revisited: From November 24 till today, I’ve had great fun discussing how whales became whales with Robert Smith. I hope […]
Odors epigenetically effect differences in genetic predispositions
No two people smell the same Excerpt: “A difference at the smallest level of DNA—one amino acid on one gene—can determine whether you find a given […]
Amino acid substitutions and de novo creation (revisited)
Extensive variability in olfactory receptors influences human odor perception December 8th, 2013 Excerpt: “…the underlying amino acid sequence can vary slightly for each of the […]
Social experiences epigenetically effect gene networks
Networks of Genes Respond to Social Experiences October 13, 2013, from Searching for the Mind with Jon Lieff, M.D. Excerpt 1: “The gene networks of […]
Evolution: innovations may have non-adaptive origins (sans mutations)
Q & A: Evolution Makes Do By Chris Palmer Evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner argues that many evolutionary innovations may have non-adaptive origins. Excerpt: “If exaptations […]
Epistasis as the primary factor in molecular evolution
“… the “mutational vicinity” is probably found in the molecular vicinity of a “metabolic niche”.
Epigenetics and metabolism converge with pheromone production
Shall we attribute to him the inability to see that metabolism and epigenetics converge with food odors and the metabolism of nutrient chemicals to pheromones that act on precisely the same molecular mechanisms of adaptive evolution found in species from microbes to man?