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Chickens are evolving 15 TIMES faster than expected:
Dailymail.co.uk ^ | 27 October 2015 | By Sarah Griffiths for MailOnline

Posted on 10/27/2015 7:41:08 PM PDT by Fred Nerks

Scientists discover the birds have developed two mutations in just 50 years Genes of White Plymouth Rock chickens mutated twice in 50 years Scientists previously thought rate of change in mitochondrial genomes was never faster than about two per cent per million years Mutations suggest rate of evolution in the chickens is 15 times faster Study goes against theory evolution can only be seen over long periods

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: agriculture; animalhusbandry; awesomedrumstick; chickens; dietandcuisine; dna; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; huntergatherers; mutation; mutattion; notevolution; tasteslikedinosaur
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To: bramps; Hugin; cripplecreek; P.O.E.; Lazamataz; Olog-hai; central_va; Fungi
well, once they were feathered little lizards, so they've come along way...


21 posted on 10/27/2015 8:01:26 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

The article doesn’t say what these two mutations are.

I’ll bet one mutation was extra crispy and the other mutation was some little orange chicken safety vests so they can cross the road.


22 posted on 10/27/2015 8:02:01 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Fred Nerks

Up in the air, Junior Birdman.

They will be soaring like Condors soon, those majestic Chickens in the Mist.


23 posted on 10/27/2015 8:02:55 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Fred Nerks

I had a science project where we had to glue together a chicken skeleton. When it was done it looked exactly like a mini T - Rex skeleton (except for the beak).


24 posted on 10/27/2015 8:03:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: cripplecreek
That's a mighty big....

....nah, I'll get banned.

25 posted on 10/27/2015 8:03:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Fred Nerks
“Chickens are evolving 15 TIMES faster than expected:”

"That's a big chicken!"


26 posted on 10/27/2015 8:03:44 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: cripplecreek

27 posted on 10/27/2015 8:04:06 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Lazamataz

A chorse? or a horckin?


28 posted on 10/27/2015 8:06:16 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Fred Nerks

“They”?

All that graphic indicates is that there was once a creature that our modern taxonomists have named “Archaeopteryx”.


29 posted on 10/27/2015 8:06:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Fred Nerks

Chick-fil-A, the ultimate in chicken evolution.


30 posted on 10/27/2015 8:06:58 PM PDT by kalee
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To: clearcarbon
"Yer gonna need a bigger coop."
31 posted on 10/27/2015 8:07:13 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Fred Nerks

32 posted on 10/27/2015 8:07:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: central_va

I cannot say what it is without a quick and brutal banning.


33 posted on 10/27/2015 8:07:32 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: blueunicorn6

So long as they don’t try to bind adamantium to its skeleton or something.


34 posted on 10/27/2015 8:07:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Fred Nerks

Pretty soon they will all taste like rattlesnake.


35 posted on 10/27/2015 8:08:11 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: max americana

Do we have to use mutated herbs and spices too?


36 posted on 10/27/2015 8:08:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Lazamataz

37 posted on 10/27/2015 8:09:44 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Fred Nerks
Since we kill all the ones with wings to serve at bars, I think a winglessness would be a great mutation to enhance survival.
38 posted on 10/27/2015 8:09:56 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Until someone invents Buffalo drumsticks.


39 posted on 10/27/2015 8:10:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Fred Nerks

Deliberate human breeding will do that.


40 posted on 10/27/2015 8:10:45 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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