‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’: Reading Starts With DNA
Almost two-and-a-half years later, on June 3, 1924, Kafka would die of complications related to tuberculosis before his book ...
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Evolution Revolution
DNA codes offer new evidence of evolution. DNA, the genetic blueprint for living things, is like a text made up of chemical letters. For many decades, reading the sequence of letters in DNA was a ...
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On the Origin of Species
In fact, it is this facet of natural selection that is easily and massively documented in the DNA record of evolution. “Variations neither useful nor injurious...would be left a fluctuating ...
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The Common Genetic Code:
The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept ... have been "conserved" throughout evolution -- that is, genes that perform certain ...
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Does life history affect molecular evolutionary rates?
The neutral theory of molecular evolution (Kimura 1983) explains this pattern by proposing that most mutations do not have an effect on the fitness of an organism. Under this model, fixed DNA ...