Kitzmiller, the Universe, and Everything

[Art (Arthur Hunt)]

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There is an unlimited supply of speculative papers.

@Art actually showed a new gene being produced by recombination of existing exons in a commercial plant. These appear to be rare events therefore claiming 1000 new genes were created by this process is quite iffy.

Not so rare. Thousands of new genes over geological time scales is likely a vast underestimate.

Also, it wasn’t existing exons. It was portions of the maize mitochondria genome that were not protein-coding.