From a Confidential Informant, Notes on Day 2 of the Royal Society Meeting

This week's Royal Society meeting in London on "New Trends in Evolutionary Biology" has now concluded. An ID scientist in the audience offered his notes on Day 2. Note his succinct running commentary. Very helpful.

Following a brief introduction by Denis Noble, the first talk was by James Shapiro about natural genetic engineering (read-write genome innovations). Most interesting finding: Non-coding DNA elements correlate with organismal complexity (distinct cell types) and are not functionle...