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To: Ron Jeremy
In all that time, it seems, the octopus hasn't evolved – not one tiny bit.

Did Farah map the fossil's genome?
10 posted on 03/27/2009 4:48:06 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: mysterio

From the article, it seems like they found a real carcass.
Or did they find the imprint of a carcass...how could they
know about the anatomy unless all of it was imprinted in
the surrounding rock? How did they determine there was
ink? Wouldn’t that decay also?
Not very good information from the WND report, will need to
read real article in journal.

P.S. with epigenetics a new field, mapping the genome
may not tell as much as one would want in terms of
evolutionary relationships. Not to mention, there are
normally occuring mutations which don’t change a phenotype,
but just seemingly hang around, so mapping the genome
doesn’t necessarily tell you where on the evolutionary
tree(lawn?) the ex-organism lies(no pun intended).


22 posted on 03/27/2009 5:37:26 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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