Steven Benner is an expert in the field. Dunning-Kruger does not apply at all.
It looks more like he's trying (EDIT: or his funding foundation is trying) to talk up his research, which is understandable.
It looks more like he's trying (EDIT: or his funding foundation is trying) to talk up his research, which is understandable.
We actually do know something about why the genetic code might have only four codons, and other aspects of its structure. It gets into combinatorics and search.