Dawkins Baffled Ask A Geneticist

Dr. Dawkings appeared baffled when asked to give an example of an evolutionary event that increased the informational contend of a genome. Dr. David Comings points out that in 1970 a colleague of his, Dr. Susumu Ohno published a classic book entitled Evolution by Gene Duplication. The lessens of this book are described and show that increases in the information content of genomes are extremely common in evolution.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• evolution
• creationism
• Dawkins
• stumped
• gene
• duplication
• polyploidy
• DNA
• genes
• chromosomes

[dcomings321]

Correct.

[charadester]

Video is taken out of context. He gave a sensible response right after the cut.  Polyploidy in Angiosperms would qualify as an example. This indicates that those making such misleading videos truly fear that which they know exists but do not want it to emerge for the general public to see and understand..

[JoshRom]

HAHA I said polyploidy too!

[Lacolith]

I want this book!

[dcomings321]

This proves there is a clear answer to the question "Can you give an example of a genetic mutation or evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?"