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PART II: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN GENOME
Pages 101-104

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From page 101...
... The sias are ubiquitous molecules that "decorate the canopy of the gly can forest" on cell surfaces and thereby play several key roles in human health and disease, for example by serving as cell-surface signals for "self" recognition in the vertebrate immune system, or as cell-surface targets for the extrinsic receptors of many pathogens. By comparing the suite of human sialic acids and their associated binding proteins against those of 0
From page 102...
... . These topics have been thoroughly reviewed elsewhere, but in Chapter 7, Douglas Wallace uses such informational backdrop as a springboard to launch a bioenergetic hypothesis that ascribes a central role for energy flux in generating and maintaining complex biological structures such as the human brain.
From page 103...
... Although the precise mechanistic action of the full suite of pigmentation genes underlying human skin-color variation remains incompletely known, the authors erect a compelling adaptationist scenario for why humans generally evolved dark skins near the equator and depigmented but tannable skins at intermediate and higher latitudes. This striking latitudinal pattern appears to reflect selection-mediated responses to two distinct challenges related to exposure to ultraviolet radiation (Uvr)
From page 104...
... in Chapter 10, John Avise asks whether the human genome displays the kinds of artistry of molecular design that natural theologians might wish to claim as definitive proof for ex nihilo craftsmanship by a caring and omnipotent Deity (Behe, 1996)


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