[Coyoteman]

An important article which demonstrates that new information can arise in the genome, and which shows some of the mechanisms by which that occurs.

[muawiyah]

Nice article ~ lots of names and references (that you still have to look up using google.com). Always handy to have them around.

On the other hand now that we know that DNA Repair Mechanisms exist, all of the work reported on here will need to be REDONE!

The guys with the business raising fruit flies in Bloomington, Indiana will be positively delirious, as will the guys who raise the pygmy guinea pigs, the mutant llamas, the rotund horses, etc.

You would not believe the number of lab animals of all types being bread in that little area ~ it dominates the world!

[Amendment10]

Most intriguing of all, we can now see how genes - which are the recipes for making proteins, the building blocks of life - arise in the first place. And the story is not unfolding quite as expected. ...

The missing predictability means that macro / micro evolution is still not understood as a science. Evolution is still largely guesswork, actually fact-based science fiction, wrongly regarded as a solid science.

[count-your-change]

And after millions of generations and the best efforts of scientists, fruit flies are still just fruit flies.