tl;dr this is not a post about wasps, it’s about junk DNA, and that asking ‘what is a thing for?’ is often an unhelpful question What is a wasp for? What is the purpose of a wasp? I hope that scientists (and others) find the answer straightforward – a wasp isn’t for anything. It is…
Tag: Evolution
Junk DNA deniers and Darwin Day
Is it is logically possible to accept the science of evolutionary biology and still deny the existence of junk DNA? I’m not sure. It is OK (though unfortunate) to be a biologist who is wrong in their assessment of an evolutionary topic. This is not a rejection of the mechanisms and rationale of evolution in…
Autonomous evolving advertising
Is it possible for advertising to evolve without human intervention? Today I was having a great coffee break discussion with Domino Joyce and James Gilbert about student classes and evolution experiments. We moved on to whether it is possible to evolve Twitter clickbait[1]? Why would you even want to? Well it might make for an interesting…
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