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To: BrandtMichaels
I will wait and see if science eventually finds these mutations also cause problems rather than improving the DNA code.

Who said anything about "improving the genetic code? This shows a lack of understanding of genetics and population biology. Beneficial mutations are only beneficial for a set of circumstances. Change the circumstances and anything can happen. There is no perfect genetic coee by which the code is striving to reach.This is not a problem for me, too bad it seems to be a stumbling block for you.

It's a problem for anyone that thinks that Man walked the earth with 100+ species of large meat eating dinosaurs.

Are you not aware that since the fall, mankind has and still does survive in spite of meat-eating animals [some are even bigger than us] and poisonous plants?

I am unaware of something called "the fall" ever actually happening. Go on and compare 100+ large species of meat eating dinosaurs with possible predators of today. Lions are not Tyrannosaurus rex or any of the other 100+. You think T. rex ever feared this Man he lived with? Just....wow.....it gets even better.

152 posted on 11/13/2009 11:33:02 AM PST by ElectricStrawberry (Didja know that Man walked with 100+ species of large meat eating dinos within the last 4,351 years?)
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To: ElectricStrawberry
"Beneficial mutations are only beneficial for a set of circumstances."

Precisely. E.g. the skin pigmentation. White skin is an evolutionary adaptation to living at higher latitudes, where people with darker complexion suffer from vitamin D deficiency. But under different circumstances this mutation, beneficial in Northern Europe, can become detrimental (too much sunshine, skin cancer).

153 posted on 11/13/2009 11:45:45 AM PST by Behemoth the Cat
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