To: neverdem
You mean the bird flu virus responds to selective pressure in human tissues by different reproductive success of mutations that enable it to better infect and reproduce in human tissues?
Wow! Some might call that evolution, anybody who understands evolution would at least.
9 posted on
07/13/2008 8:36:55 AM PDT by
allmendream
(shamelessly stealing clever FReeper lines without attribution!)
To: allmendream
Wow! Some might call that evolution, anybody who understands evolution would at least. Not me. I would call that "adaptation". After all, it is still a flu virus, albeit changed somewhat, and not some "new" species.
10 posted on
07/13/2008 9:47:13 AM PDT by
Gritty
(Our Founders never anticipated the self-reliant man would be outlawed before rifles were-Jeremy Gaye)
To: allmendream
“Wow! Some might call that evolution, anybody who understands evolution would at least”
Some in North Korea might even see it as potential biowarfare.
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