Surprising indeed! But then, maybe not:
Posted on 08/26/2002 1:22:49 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Yep! Lousy grammar, but plenty of punctuation!
I couldn't find the figures for man vs. mouse, but rabbits' DNA is 33% different from humans, or 15 times or so more than chimps. IIRC mice are in that ballpark.Humans and chimps share more than 98 percent of their DNA, so a few genes must make a big difference.
Another 1% difference and you are a mouse… From mice to men…
Hmmm?… Humans, chimps, and mice – whom are more closely related?
Interesting . . . a "loss of function" mutation turned into a "good" mutation - I thought this "never" happened :-) or did I misunderstand?
Correct!
Taxonomy, Transitional Forms, and the Fossil Record.
The Miacids in turn are very similar to the earliest representatives of the Families Canidae (dogs) and Mustelidae (weasels), both of Superfamily Arctoidea, and the Family Viverridae (civets) of the Superfamily Aeluroidea. As Romer (1966) states in Vertebrate Paleontology (p. 232), "Were we living at the beginning of the Oligocene, we should probably consider all these small carnivores as members of a single family." This statement also illustrates the point that the erection of a higher taxon is done in retrospect, after sufficient divergence has occurred to give particular traits significance.
Way to go girl!
Those are the recent events. Alu sequences make up 10% of the human genome. What makes us human is a lot of Alu.
Yes but we share just about the exact same genes with the fugu fish:
Over 30,000 Fugu genes have been identified in our analysis. The great majority of human genes have counterparts in Fugu, and vice versa, with notable exceptions including genes of the immune system,
From: Fugu Fish
Who would have thunk we really are closer to fish than to rabbits! Seems evolutionists need to start redrawing them trees!
Britten, R. J. Mobile elements inserted in the distant past have taken on important functions. Gene 205, 177-182 (1997).
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Yes but we share just about the exact same genes with the fugu fish:
Over 30,000 Fugu genes have been identified in our analysis. The great majority of human genes have counterparts in Fugu, and vice versa, with notable exceptions including genes of the immune system,
From: Fugu Fish
Who would have thunk we really are closer to fish than to rabbits! Seems evolutionists need to start redrawing them trees!
Nope, apples & oranges almost. Having "counterparts" for most of our genes is hardly the same as most genes being exactly (or almost exactly) alike. It's similar to how most animals have a gene for some variation of cytochrome-c, but the sequences themselves can be way different.
(Satan wins again!!! :-)
Nice comeback, however, not quite correct. The reason we can learn from the fugu fish is that the genes are quite close to those of humans. Very few genes are exactly alike between species. What the fugu shows is that it is not genes that are the source of complexity but the DNA which the evolutionists have incorrectly called junk.
Sure, but it's that inexactness which they measure when determining genetic distance between the species.
What the fugu shows is that it is not genes that are the source of complexity but the DNA which the evolutionists have incorrectly called junk.
That may well be true too, but that is different than saying the fugu is more closely related to Man than is the mouse.
Surprising indeed! But then, maybe not:
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