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June flashback: Massive Genetic Study Reveals 90 Percent Of Earth’s Animals Appeared At Same Time
Tech Times ^ | June 10 2018

Posted on 12/09/2018 1:24:25 PM PST by NYer

Landmark new research that involves analyzing millions of DNA barcodes has debunked much about what we know today about the evolution of species.

In a massive genetic study, senior research associate at the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University Mark Stoeckle and University of Basel geneticist David Thaler discovered that virtually 90 percent of all animals on Earth appeared at right around the same time.

More specifically, they found out that 9 out of 10 animal species on the planet came to being at the same time as humans did some 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

"This conclusion is very surprising," says Thaler, "and I fought against it as hard as I could."

What Is DNA Barcoding?

Over the last decade, hundreds of scientists collected around 5 million DNA barcodes from 100,000 animal species in different parts of the globe. Stoeckle and Thaler looked through these 5 million genetic imprints to find one of the most surprising discoveries about evolution to date.

There are two types of DNA. Most people know nuclear DNA. This is the DNA containing the genetic blueprint for each single individual. It is passed down from the parents to the offspring. The genome is made from kinds types of molecules arranged in pairs. There are 3 billion of these pairs, which are then used to form thousands of genes.

The other, less familiar type of DNA is one found in the mitochondria of cells. The mitochondria generate energy for the cell and contains 37 genes. One of these is the COI gene, which is used to create DNA barcodes. All species have a very similar mitochondrial DNA, but their DNA is also different enough so we can distinguish between species.

Paul Hebert, biologist and director of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, developed a new way to identify species by studying the COI gene.

Born Around The Same Time

In analyzing the COI of 100,000 species, Stoeckle and Thaler arrived at the conclusion that most animals appeared simultaneously. They found that the neutral mutation across species were not as varied as expected. Neutral mutation refers to the slight DNA changes that occur across generations. They can be compared to tree rings because they can tell how old a certain specie or individual is.

As to how that could have happened, it's unclear. A likely possibility is the occurrence of a sudden event that caused large-scale environmental trauma and wiped out majority of the Earth's species.

"Viruses, ice ages, successful new competitors, loss of prey — all these may cause periods when the population of an animal drops sharply," explains Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment.

Such times give rise to sweeping genetic changes across the planet, causing new species to appear. However, the last time such an occurrence took place was 65 million years ago, when an asteroid hit the Earth and killed off the dinosaurs and half of all other species on the planet.

The study is published in the journal Human Evolution.


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1 posted on 12/09/2018 1:24:25 PM PST by NYer
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Hm. I would say closer to 100%.


2 posted on 12/09/2018 1:27:23 PM PST by lurk
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To: Salvation
As to how that could have happened, it's unclear.

ROFL!! They start the research expecting to find proof of evolution and end up with support for creation. And still, they can't see the forest for the trees.

3 posted on 12/09/2018 1:27:58 PM PST by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: lurk

Well, 100% got on the boat at the same time...

stands to reason, 100% got off the boat at the same time as well.


4 posted on 12/09/2018 1:28:28 PM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: NYer

Let’s see. A recent study claimed all of earth’s people descended from the same two parents. Now 90% of animal life appeared at about the same time. Are we on the verge of rediscovering God’s creation?


5 posted on 12/09/2018 1:28:29 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: NYer

That must have been a really Big Bang!


6 posted on 12/09/2018 1:29:17 PM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: NYer

Almost as if someone spoke them into existence.


7 posted on 12/09/2018 1:31:31 PM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: NYer

Well Imagine that!!!


8 posted on 12/09/2018 1:31:35 PM PST by tallyhoe
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“This conclusion is very surprising,” says (David) Thadler, “and I fought against it as hard as I could.” …

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw4 that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. …
— Genesis 1:20-26
Well, no wonder he fought against the conclusion; look what it seems to vindicate.
9 posted on 12/09/2018 1:33:18 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: C210N

We’re gonna need a bigger boat...


10 posted on 12/09/2018 1:37:21 PM PST by null and void (Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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11 posted on 12/09/2018 1:41:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: NYer
"This conclusion is very surprising," says Thaler, "and I fought against it as hard as I could."

Sounds like an idealogue or religious fanatic. The science pointed to a clear conclusion, but he fought against it and hoped that his cherished article of faith ("species are millions of years old and all come from a single ancestor") could be maintained. Alas, the Bible has it more right than Darwin.

12 posted on 12/09/2018 1:41:47 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: NYer

Whoops. Darwin ain’t going to like this.


13 posted on 12/09/2018 1:44:10 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: NYer

Must be the work of God!


14 posted on 12/09/2018 1:44:15 PM PST by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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To: NYer

Time for the Alien dude to explain it all.


15 posted on 12/09/2018 1:45:39 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: NYer
Oh please don't rile up the group of FR atheists who call themselves "conservative" when in fact there is nothing to "conserve" without a Living, True God.

They have more in common with the godless democrats.

16 posted on 12/09/2018 1:49:31 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: C210N

“Well, 100% got on the boat at the same time...”

Noah: “Anyone seen Sasquatch?”


17 posted on 12/09/2018 1:49:56 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: lurk

Wonder how the Darwinists are going to explain/hide this?


18 posted on 12/09/2018 1:50:00 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Salvavida

You mean the secular humanists?


19 posted on 12/09/2018 1:51:30 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray

Evolutionary theory never predicts anything.

But anything observed can be folded in to evolutionary theory.

It’s not a real theory. Can’t be disproven.


20 posted on 12/09/2018 1:54:57 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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