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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...
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:01:26 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
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.
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:02:01 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Fred Nerks
Up in the air, Junior Birdman.
They will be soaring like Condors soon, those majestic Chickens in the Mist.
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:02:55 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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).
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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.)
To: cripplecreek
That's a mighty big....
....nah, I'll get banned.
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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'.)
To: Fred Nerks
“Chickens are evolving 15 TIMES faster than expected:”
"That's a big chicken!"
To: cripplecreek
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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'.)
To: Lazamataz
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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.)
To: Fred Nerks
“They”?
All that graphic indicates is that there was once a creature that our modern taxonomists have named “Archaeopteryx”.
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:06:26 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Fred Nerks
Chick-fil-A, the ultimate in chicken evolution.
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:06:58 PM PDT
by
kalee
To: clearcarbon
"Yer gonna need a bigger coop."
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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.")
To: Fred Nerks
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:07:17 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: central_va
I cannot say what it is without a quick and brutal banning.
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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'.)
To: blueunicorn6
So long as they don’t try to bind adamantium to its skeleton or something.
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:07:36 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Fred Nerks
Pretty soon they will all taste like rattlesnake.
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:08:11 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Tagline pending.)
To: max americana
Do we have to use mutated herbs and spices too?
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:08:55 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Lazamataz
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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.)
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.
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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.)
To: KarlInOhio
Until someone invents Buffalo drumsticks.
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:10:40 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Fred Nerks
Deliberate human breeding will do that.
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