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Germs Found In Amber Lived With First Dinosaurs
National Geographic ^
| 12-13-2006
| Brian Henwerk
Posted on 12/18/2006 3:43:14 PM PST by blam
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12/18/2006 3:43:16 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
Surprisingly, these microscopic organisms look quite familiar to today's scientists. Surprisingly? Why is that a surprise? Protozoans stumbled upon a winning formula. Why change when there's no pressure to?
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:44:52 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:45:21 PM PST
by
blam
To: Alter Kaker
Well if they didn't change a great deal this could be considered a shot in the arm for 'intelligent design' for one.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:47:59 PM PST
by
ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
(To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
To: blam
To: blam
Someday we'll open a real Pandora's Box.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:49:05 PM PST
by
umgud
(I love NASCAR as much as the Democrats hate Bush)
To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Well if they didn't change a great deal this could be considered a shot in the arm for 'intelligent design' for one.No it wouldn't. Nothing in evolutionary theory says that an organism that has stumbled upon a successful formula has to change -- in fact it says the opposite. There will always be some genetic changes over time, but there's absolutely no need for dramatic change if the formula works.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:51:21 PM PST
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Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: blam
Have any single cell creatures changed much in 200 million years? Doesn't seem like they necessarily would. Colonies, i.e., animals might change, evolve, considerably while retaining the same kinds of cells all along.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:51:23 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: blam
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:52:51 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: blam
You've been busy lately Sir. Thank you.
Why are these micro organisms so familiar? Gram positive, negative? Acid fast?
If I remember my "Bergys" correctly, there are so many thousands of types that some writer saying anything about 'familiarity' is rather silly.
We don't even know all of the bugs living today, never mind what was dominant 100 million years ago.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:54:59 PM PST
by
Radix
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To: Radix
"Why are these micro organisms so familiar?"
Great numbers of ancient germs and other poxy bugs and organisms have existed for decades in the United States Congress, not to mention the local legislatures of many of the fifty states.
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks Blam. Microbe, your crobe, everybody's crobe ping.
I guess we know which is the toughest on the planet, germs or dinosaurs. Nice try, saurian wussies.
Hey, did anyone find the princes?
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12/18/2006 4:11:45 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
" I guess we know which is the toughest on the planet, germs or dinosaurs. Nice try, saurian wussies.""Hey, did anyone find the princes?"
I dino.
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posted on
12/18/2006 4:15:00 PM PST
by
blam
To: umgud
Or an Andromeda strain.
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posted on
12/18/2006 4:15:01 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: blam
How soon will some bozo scientist decide to grow some of these things and forget to lock them up tight one night?
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posted on
12/18/2006 4:16:15 PM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Well if they didn't change a great deal this could be considered a shot in the arm for 'intelligent design' for one.
*ahem*
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posted on
12/18/2006 4:19:01 PM PST
by
Wormwood
(I'm with you in Rockland)
To: blam
How about considering that the protozoans alive today consist in part of the same living all those eon ago. If they divide at the cellular level and never die in the conventional sense, the original organism still lives.
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posted on
12/18/2006 4:23:19 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Rozerem commercials give me nightmares)
To: bert
That's why sex was a great invention from an evolutionary standpoint...
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posted on
12/18/2006 4:30:13 PM PST
by
null and void
(You might as well do something big, because doing something small is just as hard ~ Larry Bock)
To: blam
Cortina d'ampezzo
that's it, way down there...
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posted on
12/18/2006 4:35:01 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(MEDIA + ENEMY = ENEMEDIA!)
To: null and void
That's why sex was a great invention from an evolutionary standpoint...Hold on...my wife really needs to see this.
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12/18/2006 4:36:24 PM PST
by
Wormwood
(I'm with you in Rockland)
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