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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: blueunicorn6
Nope. Boneless.


61 posted on 10/27/2015 8:29:32 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dfwgator

It was a roundhouse kick by Chuck applied under the chin of his balky Appaloosa.
Voila. A giraffe.


62 posted on 10/27/2015 8:30:07 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

http://miriamhakedosha.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/ireland-velikovsky-and-tutankhamun.html

“...The mutation change rate of dna is causing some problems for those who advocate the evolutionary position. Studies of Y-dna have shown that there are two kinds of y-dna mutations. Firstly there is a stable paternal system that is said to be much slower in mutating than mt-dna. This first sequence is believed by evolutionary geneticists to take tens of thousands of years to mutate for a single mutation between groups. Secondly there is a sequence that is much faster in mutating. This second sequence is like a stammer, and the y-dna gains or loses one of these sequences much quicker. This loss and gain results in separating the Haplogroup into hundreds of male lines. These mutations are said by evolutionary geneticists to occur every 1,500 years, give or take a few years. Studying the y-dna of certain families of the Niall clan of M222 in the US and Britain have demonstrated single-step mutations in less than two hundred years. Thus the mutation rate is not 1,500 years but around 100-200 years for each mutation step. The mt-dna mutation rate is said to be 20,000 years by the evolutionary geneticists- this also is ridiculously too long...”


63 posted on 10/27/2015 8:35:54 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Lee Enfield

Well, that’ll wake everybody up in the morning on the farm.


64 posted on 10/27/2015 8:37:06 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: FreedomPoster

Looks like my cousin Helen’s kids after they found the liquor at the family reunion.


65 posted on 10/27/2015 8:39:05 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Lazamataz; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON

“The hen has sex with the rooster. So my question is who’s having sex with the chickens?”


66 posted on 10/27/2015 8:46:49 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Lazamataz

At the local barbecue place the guys all wear shirts that say “ You can’t get a better piece of chicken unless you’re a rooster.”


67 posted on 10/27/2015 8:49:13 PM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: bramps
"Let me know when one becomes a wolf."

Jo Anne Worley..."Is that a chicken joke?"

68 posted on 10/27/2015 8:55:16 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Zeneta

You a “backdoor Man” are you?


69 posted on 10/27/2015 8:59:57 PM PDT by BBell
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To: blueunicorn6

Orange chicken......

Mmmmmmm!


70 posted on 10/27/2015 9:13:20 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: exDemMom
does inbreeding have an greater chance of mutated DNA ?

from the article:
This was done by studying DNA from blood samples of 12 chickens of the same generation using the most distantly related maternal lines, knowing the population had started from seven partially inbred lines.
71 posted on 10/27/2015 9:27:53 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: Fred Nerks

“Third Stone From The Sun”

[Verse 1]
Oh strange beautiful grass of green
with your majestic silken scenes
Your mysterious mountains
I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine

[Verse 2]
Although your world wonders me
with your majestic superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand
So to you I wish to put an end
And you’ll never hear surf music again


72 posted on 10/27/2015 9:31:23 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Yawn. Get back to me when they develop night vision.


73 posted on 10/27/2015 9:38:51 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Lazamataz

My date told me that last night too. Mighty big... :-) ........Chicken.

Couldn’t imagine the trouble the two of us could get in if we went out partying some night. As an aside... We do have a roller derby league here in Indy. Tough as nails women. Eiffel Tower anyone?


74 posted on 10/27/2015 9:44:01 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools: Go Trump!)
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To: All

I, for one, welcome our new overlords.


75 posted on 10/27/2015 10:33:40 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Lazamataz

Beat me by only three hours.


76 posted on 10/27/2015 10:34:37 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Fred Nerks

Hey, sometimes we just have to make our own fun.

Which came first, the evolving eggs or evolving chickens?


77 posted on 10/27/2015 11:21:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Mutation #1 - offspring now born already breaded.

Mutation #2 - offspring now born with feathers sealed in pillow cases.

All totally random mutations...


78 posted on 10/28/2015 1:24:07 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: Fred Nerks

But they’re still chickens.

Let me know when they change into swans.


79 posted on 10/28/2015 1:27:42 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Fred Nerks

OMG the rise of the Terminator Chickens


80 posted on 10/28/2015 1:47:03 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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