Host Siddhant Pusdkekar speaks to Joanna Masel about how she stumbled upon a 4 billion year old trend and a problem that evolution has been trying to solve since the beginning of life

Papers referenced in this episode

Genes from Junk DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01925-6.pdf

Papers on directionality in evolution by Joanna Masel

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7153934/

https://elifesciences.org/articles/57347

https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/211/4/1345/5931507