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ScienceAlert Vindicates My Findings About Human “Tails” — They Are NOT an Evolutionary Atavism

The article cites new literature that has appeared since I published my own review nine years ago. Read More ›
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Mice Born with No Mother, Two Fathers: What Next?

Ostensibly the purpose would be to help with rare forms of infertility in women. But these are dual-edged technologies. Read More ›
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A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2

Lang and Rice cite a number of articles to show that loss-of-function mutations are just a small minority of those found in studies of organisms. Read More ›
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Princeton Researchers Watch “Junk DNA” at Work

In “real time” they show the function of an enhancer in switching a gene from off to on. Read More ›
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Were Nazis More Tolerant of Down Syndrome than Some European Countries Today?

Richard Dawkins lashed out at Pope Francis for the latter’s comparing modern eugenic efforts to Nazi precedents that sought to “create a pure race.” Read More ›

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