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To: tallhappy
Results indicated that MLV, SL3-3 MuLV, HIV-1 and HTLV-1 integrate preferentially near MARs, specifically within 2-kilobases (kb).

The original issue is whether ERVs indicate common ancestry. Integration "preferentially near" specific MARs should be easily differentiated from "exactly in the same spot".

Two separate infection events may be near (assuming you're not misusing the evidence on this, as you did last night), in this case within 2kbp, while an inherited infection from a common ancestor would be in exactly the same spot.

And then we add that there are multiple ERV "fossils", thousands of them apparently, and the result is that the only reasonable answer is a common ancestor is the cause, not duplicate infections that just happen to match.

And then add the other matching items in DNA, the broken vitamin "C" gene, the evidence of the chromosome centemere evidence where Chimp vs. Human DNA line up, etc. etc.

Add morphological evidence. Add outside evolution theory that's been demonstrated, and never falsified.

Bottom line, there was a common ancestor. The puzzle fits.

But keep it up tallhappy. I'm sure there are suckers willing to pay money for eager biologists with a legal mind that tell them what they want to hear.

274 posted on 08/24/2005 11:14:47 AM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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275 posted on 08/24/2005 11:37:08 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: narby
Hi narby see 228.

And drop the paranoia.

279 posted on 08/24/2005 12:26:06 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: narby
Bottom line, there was a common ancestor.

I have not argued against common ancestry.

Why you would think non-random integration would destroy the concept of common ancestry is strange.

281 posted on 08/24/2005 12:29:25 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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