And Finally the Hounding Duck Can Rest

By Carl Zimmer
Jul 23, 2012 7:02 PMMay 22, 2019 11:12 PM

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[Note: This is the last of a four-part series:

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

Part Two: The Mystery of the Missing Chromosomes, Continued: An Update From Your Preening Blogger

Part Three: Four Days of Fusion Chromosome Freak-Out]

For the past five days, I've been trying to get an answer from creationists. Today, I finally got it. And it's an instructive lesson in how creationism makes itself irrelevant to the progress of science. Plus, it's a good opportunity to look at the delightfully sloppy way our chromosomes evolve.

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