Seriously though folks, this is an interesting piece of research .

Mr Fernandez has been busy undertaking research on mysteries regarding the complexity of the human genome. He and his fellow researchers think they have uncovered a mechanism explaining this complexity, in part at least. It has to do with the consequences of gene and genome duplication, and what the genetic system does in order to cope with this occurrence.

Here are the details in layman’s terms:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1103145603.htm

Here is a taste:-

Originally posted by Above link

A painstaking analysis of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising from duplicate genes.

We have found a specific evolutionary mechanism to account for a portion of the intricate biological complexity of our species," said Ariel Fernandez, professor of bioengineering at Rice University. "It is a coping mechanism, a process that enables us to deal with the fitness consequences of inefficient selection. It enables some of our proteins to become more specialized over time, and in turn makes us more complex."

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It would seem to me that this ties in very nicely with this paper I presented a week or so ago, regarding non adaptive evolution and the origins of complexity:-

http://www.pnas.org/content/104/suppl.1/8597.full.pdf


Thanks to SteveF at TR for bringing this to our attention.



Regards, Roland

PS Congratulations Jorge. So that’s where you have been all along. Been showing science to be capable of determining evolutionary mechanisms, even if they are non-Darwinian. You old scoundrel you. Had me thinking you were off to a YEC conference, the aim of which was to vilify a dead man, yet again.

Dr. Fernandez.

Originally posted by USIncognito

Dr. Fernandez.

A sensible and reasonable correction to make USIncognito.

I was hoping to have had a 'blessing' from Jorge over this by now. He has been ignoring me a lot lately and I am missing my Jorge 'fix'.

Oh well.

Nevertheless, insofar as I can understand it, all interesting stuff.

I am looking at another paper at the moment on a chromosome fusion which carried genes with it that caused reproductive isolation in a species of stickleback which haunt the sea, rivers and lakes around Japan and the Pacific Ocean.

Worth a post.

Maybe Jorge will read that.


Regards, Roland