Comments on: The Mystery of the Missing Chromosome (With A Special Guest Appearance from Facebook Creationists)

By: The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 21th, 2012) | Face

The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 21th, 2012) | Face — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:20:15 +0000

[...] The Mystery of the Missing Chromosome (With A Special Guest Appearance from Facebook Creationists) by Carl Zimmer: [...]

By: Luskin, Science and Human Origins and Dik-Dik Feces « Afarensis: Anthropology, Evolution, and Science

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:20:44 +0000

[...] posts from the folks that created the book, but the dik-dik feces hit the fan when Carl Zimmer asked a simple question (be sure to read all four parts). Nick Matzke captured some of the fun over at The Panda’s [...]

By: Blobologist-approved reads: Icefish, cancer stem cells, fusion chromosomes | The Blobologist

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:41:53 +0000

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By: Some recent fun with creationism and anthropology « Defending Reality

Some recent fun with creationism and anthropology « Defending Reality — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:37:32 +0000

[...] If you want to learn more about human chromosome 2, please check out Carl Zimmer’s in-depth series. [...]

By: Creationist “science”: cherry-picking, misquoting, stating w/o support | Reality-based World View

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:01:36 +0000

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By: We Called Out Darwinist Critic Carl Zimmer, He Folded, and Now He’s a Darwinist Hero | Foundation Life

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:50:44 +0000

[...] McBride was so obscure that one of those to hoist him up on their shoulders, science writer and Discover magazine blogger Carl Zimmer, kept spelling his name “MacBride.” [...]

By: YA

YA — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:09:42 +0000

“We have 23 pairs. Chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest living relatives, have 24. If you come to these facts cold, you might think this represented an existential crisis for evolutionary biologists. If we do indeed descend from a common ancestor with great apes, then our ancestors must have lost a pair after our lineage branched off, some six million years ago. How on Earth could we just give up an entire chromosome.”

Well couldn’t you just as well say the most recent common ancestor was a creature with 23 pairs and the chimps and gorillas evolved a 24th? It wouldn’t contradict the theory of Evolution. You would just have to say chimps and gorillas both developed a 24th. It would be convergent evolution. It doesn’t seem like a crisis Evolution had to overcome with humans having 23. Where were the statements from Evolutionary scientists saying Evolution has a potential crisis on its hands when the testing wasn’t done yet to resolve the problem?

By: Shrunk

Shrunk — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:30:17 +0000

@ qwerty99

That’s not correct. A carrier of the translocation can still reproduce with someone who does not have it, although their fertility will be reduced. PZ Myers explains this here:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/09/15/luskins-ludicrous-genetics/

By: An epic end to the Zimmer/Klinghoffer chromosome fusion saga

An epic end to the Zimmer/Klinghoffer chromosome fusion saga — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:22:48 +0000

[...] Zimmer, well-known science writer, has been battling with DI fellow David Klinghoffer over the past few days over the evidence for a chromosome fusion [...]

By: Maybe Carl Zimmer is free to read Science and Human Origins now … | Uncommon Descent

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:32:16 +0000

[...] Discovery Institute’s David Klinghoffer arising from a discussion on a Facebook page: His issue here was this paragraph: But the idea of such an event having occurred at all is itself far from sure. [...]