Junk-of-the-Gaps Argument Shrinks Again

Jonathan Wells's book The Myth of Junk DNA has reduced defenders of the Junk DNA thesis to making "junk of the gaps" arguments, hoping that some of the DNA we don't yet understand will turn out to be useless evolutionary garbage after all. But with the direction that research is trending, as we discover more and more functions for non-coding DNA, the gaps keep getting smaller and smaller.

Back in July, we saw that multiple new papers have reported functions for "junk" DNA, including...