Rumraket:
Giltil:
Thanks to you and @Rumraket for the evidence you provide in support of your view. Don’t think that’s the end of the matter, though, for it seems clear that ever since Barbara McClintock’s pioneering work, more and more non ID scientists are suspecting that far from being junk, mobile genetic elements play important roles not only in the biological operations within individuals but also in evolution.
And a few examples here and there have been found, though the 7 or more lines of evidence I referred to above still supports the vast majority as being junk.
None of this evidence goes away, it doesn’t get rebutted or even responded to, by name-dropping scientists suggesting the possibility that more mobile genetic elements could have functions.
And… the fact that very act of retroviral insertion leaves physical traces behind. Most notably Target Site Duplications (TSDs) . Thus ERVs are the result of viral insertions, and that would be true even if we assume all ERVs are functional, which we shouldn’t since that not true either.
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June 17, 2025, 1:58am
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