It wasn't long ago that Laurence Moran and PZ Myers were telling us that the genome is not even pervasively transcribed and that this amounted to evidence that the majority of our DNA is junk.
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In tribute to this masterpiece of design, I have just published a detailed literature review in which I describe the processes underlying its self-assembly and operations.
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Co-discoverer of the double-helical structure of DNA, Francis Crick, once said "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved." Goodluck with the constant reminders.
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While it is certainly true that function has not yet been identified for the majority of the genome, there is no reason to think the current trend -- of finding new, previously unsuspected functionality -- will not continue.
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Sternberg writing at ENV back in 2009: "Guy Walks Into a Bar and Thinks He's a Chimpanzee" and "How the Junk DNA Hypothesis Has Changed Since 1980"
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