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To: bondserv
OK; no problem. I was a bit surprised.

Re: yor question; the homologies between monomeric globins like myoglobin and oligomeric hemoglobins are well established. We don't know what the ultimate ancestry of the globin gene is (it's likely older than a billion years) but we can construct perfectly good phylogenies for the multicellular organism globins. If you accept a phylogenetic tree as evidence for evolution, and we do, then there are no miracles necessary to evolve hemoglobin from monomeric proteins. Where the ancestral globin gene came from is still a mystery.

Some refs.

http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~jvfleter/globins/globins.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8587498&dopt=Abstract

http://www.aw-bc.com/mathews/ch07/fi7p23.htm

300 posted on 05/07/2004 1:27:23 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Thanks RWP.

I had meant to type in (emphasized text added), but of course got sidetracked and then just cut and pasted (emphasis added) from the prior quote.

Thanks for the references.

319 posted on 05/07/2004 2:44:59 PM PDT by bondserv (Alignment is critical!)
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