DNA study sheds new light on horse evolution

The University of Adelaide ^ | Dec 10, 2009 | Unknown

[decimon]

Ancient DNA retrieved from extinct horse species from around the world has challenged one of the textbook examples of evolution - the fossil record of the horse family Equidae over the past 55 million years.

The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, involved an international team of researchers and the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) based at the University of Adelaide.

Only the modern horse, zebras, wild asses and donkey survive today, but many other lineages have become extinct over the last 50,000 years.

ACAD Director Professor Alan Cooper says despite an excellent fossil record of the Equidae, there are still many gaps in our evolutionary knowledge. "Our results change both the basic picture of recent equid evolution, and ideas about the number and nature of extinct species."

[muawiyah]

The Algore family is well covered genealogically speaking. For the most part, right down to Al's generation in fact, they were ignorant hillbillies ~ and still are!

Not that there's anything wrong with that ~ like everybody's got ignorant hillbillies, and worse, in their background, but Al should have studied more instead of blowing pot.

I tracked down the Gore's over a decade ago. The biggest problem is that there are multiple Gore family lines that are not related. Plus, when you get off the male lineage you pick up on all sorts of Scottish and English lineages that wander off into the never never regions.

Now, is he related to Obama? Probably not. Even with a great number of Alexander ancestors I am not related to him as best I can tell (although Bill Clinton is, and I recall so is George Bush).

Obama's mother's lineage is a mix of blue-bloods from Scandinavia and Nederland, a vast number of Huguenots, and even Iriquois Indians. They extend back to the very foundations of the nation ~ which Obama's grandmother understood, and if you know your ropes you can steer yourself into a noncompetitive entry as a "legacy of the founders" of a number of Ivy League schools.

Oh, yeah, there are some English ancestors in the mix. I don't track the English though.

[CharlesWayneCT]

See, vertical stripes are slimming, horizontal ones make you look fat, so it’s a wash in this case.

[Kenny Bunk]

ROTFLMAO

On me. Of course I meant to say "hanged" as a horse thief. For genetic details on the other, check with Tipper. (I'm sorry. I love her.)

Speaking of Wild Asses, did you know that during the Clinton Admins, no one, repeat No One, from the MSM was allowed to photograph the couples from behind?

Al, Tipper, Bill, and Hillary; each casts a mighty gluteal shadow. When they stood together it was large enough to cause local climate change and crop failure.

[SunkenCiv]

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[xcamel]

Useless without pictures...

[Monkey Face]

Some studies are dumber than others. What will be gained by the conclusions of this study??

Perhaps we will finally know why there are more horses asses than there are horses. ;o]

[decimon]

Useless without pictures...

A horse is a horse, of course, of course and I couldn't find any pics without Alan Young in them.

[blam]

I am Mr Ed

[LiteKeeper]

Interesting, since it didn’t happen!

[decimon]

I am Mr Ed

Do you think I'm stupid? I won't believe that until I know you can talk.

[Dustbunny]

Some studies are dumber than others. What will be gained by the conclusions of this study??

Grant money.

[Stultis]

Interesting, since it didn’t happen!

Actually, virtually all "creation scientists" say it DID happen. The "horse kind" (Family Equidae) is the single most commonly cited example of a "baramin" or "originally created 'kind'."

IOW, creationists DO accept the common ancestry of all equids. (At most casting off only the earliest members of the group.) Apparently, however, their lay followers don't pick up on this.

[Natural Law]

"Now if GGG had posted this, it would be PROOF POSITIVE that the Earth is 6,000 years old."

What the buffoon doesn't realize is that the continual efforts to refine and revise previously made theories and conclusions is the antithesis of "Temple of Darwin", jackbooted, lockstep, evo-atheist blind adherence to a false god BS he cries daily. But, hey, if he wants to be the pinata at the daily science office party, pick up a stick and have a whack.

[ZULU]

I think his ancestors were space aliens.

[hennie pennie]

roflololol!!

[LiteKeeper]

I agree with you, I just don’t like the word “evolution” - I prefer “speciation.” The party line on equine evolution does not match the fossil record. I am familiar with baraminology, and agree...I just don’t want to associate it with creation.

[MetaThought]

At this point, a lot of research is being funded by connecting it to AGW, no matter how tenuous the link.