Humans, Chickens, and the Vitellogenin Pseudogene -- Summing Up

Let's take a moment to summarize the results of our comments on the vitellogenin pseudogene and its meaning for the question of universal common ancestry. According to the data, the debate concerns six total genes supposedly shared by humans and chickens.

Having offered our observations here:

"Functional Pseuodogenes and Common Descent"

"The Vitellogenin Pseudogene Story: Unequally Yolked"

...we'd say the situations stands as follows.

Three of those genes (ELTD1, SSX2IP, CTBS) are functional...