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Despised Theories, No. 3: Lysenkoism
If contemporary ‘modern-synthesis’ genetic determinism was tainted with the over-extrapolations of eugenics, Lamarkism and epigenetics labored under its own set of miasma –brought about as much by...
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Despised Theories, No. 4: Pangenesis
N atural Selection is the process by which certain heritable traits that convey some advantage become more common in a population over successive generations. These advantages typically make the...
View ArticleOn blood groups and heart disease
A recent Lancet article has resuscitated some interest about the influence of ABO blood groups and one’s chances of developing cardiovacular disease. Like a lot of earlier studies that documented the...
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Genetics as an Interactive Sport
“For your information, I would like to ask a question.” —Samuel Goldwyn From an evolutionary point of view, in order for something to carry information, there must first be some sort of “receiver”...
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Transposable elements
DNA sequencing is not static. A considerable amount of DNA jumps around from place to place. While other elements compete for representation at a given locus, transposable elements accumulate by...
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Simple Differences
The last century has seen science and technology used to justify any and all supremacist theories, culminating in the development of a pseudoscience called “Eugenics”, which advocated the improvement...
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Walking on Eggshells
After a self-declared coding holiday, I was back at things this weekend working on the Pathscrubber module of the Datapunk platform. A recently developed vexing problem that needed to be addressed was...
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