Recently, my grad student and I published an article that articulates a number of ideas that have been bouncing around my brain for quite some time, “Non-Darwinian Molecular Biology”. While writing this piece, I wanted to bring up some great conceptual ideas that I had read in a perspective on the relationship between the evolution of elaborate gene expression machinery in eukaryotes and selfish DNA. The problem was, I could not remember who wrote this perspective or where it was published …
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