[decimon]

Cnearsighted.

[mountainlion]

I don’t believe them.

[RobRoy]

>>”Instead, it illustrates how all organisms –– humans included –– are a complex mix of ancient and new characteristics.” <<

Is that statement very scientific. It appears to be a statement of fact about something that, at best, is an hypothesis.

[sinatorhellary]

"This work picks up on earlier studies of the hydra in my lab, and continues to challenge the misunderstanding that evolution represents a ladder-like march of progress, with humans at the pinnacle," said Oakley. "Instead, it illustrates how all organisms –– humans included –– are a complex mix of ancient and new characteristics."

Well I'll be a hydra's uncle! Keep telling humans that they're no different from the animals, and in a few generations they'll start to act like it.

[ClearCase_guy]

Can a biologist explain this to me? The Hydra is a genus. Above that you have Family and Order and Class. Then you get to Phylum.

There seems to be an implication here that humans have this gene because cnidaria developed it 600 million years ago. Well, humans are in a different Phylum, so I don’t see how we got anything from the cnidaria. Meanwhile, flies are yet another phylum, and the article indicates that vision among such animals emerged later and separately. Why wouldn’t they say that about humans?

I fail to see why any connection is made between humans and hydra. If the gene is the same it would seem to argue more for an Intelligent Designer who re-used an idea that works rather than for a line of descent from two separate phyla.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I know the origins of human sight.

It is sad that so many people are blinded to the truth.

[paudio]

By studying the hydra, a member of an ancient group of sea creatures that is still flourishing...

Wow... I didn't know that these creatures are still around...

[Gritty-Kitty]

It’s a scam. I once got an e-mail from those Cnidarians promising me riches in exchange for a small processing fee.

[GOP Poet]

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[count-your-change]

Yippeee Skippeeee!!! More papers to publish, more grants, pushing the edges of the pay envelope back just a bit further in the name of hydra genetics. Let's call it HydraGen!!!

[SunkenCiv]

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[LiteKeeper]

This is preposterous. There is so much complexity in the human eye, that to believe that it arose through a series of mistakes in the DNA is absurd.