Category: Genetics & DNA
Biology in the ancient record. Recessive inheritance in Genesis 30, the Y chromosome problem in the virgin birth, endogenous retroviruses in the human genome, the lifespan decay curve from Adam to Moses, and what modern genetics can and cannot say about any of it.
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Human Chromosome 2: The Fusion, and the 1,280 Who Carried It
You have 46 chromosomes. Every other great ape has 48. What sits at 2q13, the case against reading it as a fusion, and why…
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The Shroud of Turin: A Negative Nobody Ordered
Dust vacuumed from the cloth in 1978 has now been sequenced, and the result was reported as evidence the Shroud came from India. The…
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Junk DNA: An Archive Nobody Curated
An onion has five times more DNA than you do. That single fact is the hardest question in genomics, and it is the one…
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Jacob’s Lab: The Genetics Experiment in Genesis 30
Laban removed every spotted sheep and still lost. What he culled was the phenotype – the genotype stayed in his flock. The two verses…
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Why Did Ancient Humans Live 900 Years?
Plot the Genesis ages and you do not get noise – you get a decay curve that flattens at exactly the number the text…
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The Y Chromosome Problem: The Biology of the Virgin Birth
Mary raised the biological objection herself. Modern genetics has made it sharper, not easier – a missing chromosome and an imprinting pattern with no…
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The Divine Engineer: The Biology of Adam and Eve
Formed, then breathed – two separate operations. What dust of the ground gets chemically right, why tsela probably does not mean rib, and the…
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The Hijacked Code: Your Placenta Was Built by a Virus
Eight percent of your genome is retroviral. Protein-coding genes are 1.5%. The protein that builds the placenta is a domesticated viral envelope – and…