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Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies
NY Times ^
| December 6, 2005
| CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Posted on 12/07/2005 5:47:32 PM PST by neverdem
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To: rrr51; Termite_Commander; caisson71
IIRC, fruit flies have been workhorses in genetic research. Enter genetics and drosophila melanogaster into Google, PubMed, etc.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:03:12 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Twelve generations? Don't see how that will do me any good?
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12/07/2005 7:08:04 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: neverdem
fruit flies have been workhorsesworkhorses? oh -- horseflies, I get it.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:14:56 PM PST
by
FreeKeys
("If you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics." -- Dr. Michael Crichton)
To: neverdem
"Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana".
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:19:21 PM PST
by
whipitgood
(Public schools have replaced a biblical moral code with pragmatism. Civilization, beware!)
To: neverdem
I'll believe evolution is the sole source of life when the scientists are able to show me how random lightening can creat a self-breeding cell.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:17:06 PM PST
by
ConservativeChinese
(I'm a Chinese, no affirmative action needed, thank you.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/07/2005 9:37:34 PM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America)
To: LiteKeeper
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posted on
12/07/2005 10:44:45 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: Termite_Commander
"But why did you pick FRUIT FLIES?! "
Because they are relatively simple and thus easy to work on.
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posted on
12/07/2005 11:17:59 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: neverdem
YEC = Young Earth Creationist
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12/08/2005 5:09:08 PM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America)
To: ConservativeChinese
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12/08/2005 8:30:06 PM PST
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satchmodog9
( Seventy million spent on the lefts Christmas present and all they got was a Scooter)
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