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To: Sabertooth
Suggested experiment for the evolutionary biologists that could put Noah and the flood right out of business as an explanation for the human/chimp genetic diversity differences. -------- Measure the genetic diversity of fishes and sea creatures and compare those differences to the chimp and human differences. Since Noah had no reason to take sea creatures along they would have not run into the Noah pair bottleneck to genetic diversity. They should have much greater diversity than the humans and the Noah land passangers. Hope they will not ignore this crucial experiment if they have not already done it.
82 posted on 01/29/2002 8:56:11 PM PST by Rushian
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To: Rushian
Suggested experiment for the evolutionary biologists... Measure the genetic diversity of fishes and sea creatures and compare those differences to the chimp and human differences.

There's a problem with this experiment... fish genetics can't be extrapolated to mammal genetics.

For example, hybrization appears much more frequently among fish in nature, than it does with mammals. Also, in captivity, fertile hybrids occur between related species, and hybridization even takes place between different genera. Not so with mammals.


84 posted on 01/29/2002 9:10:14 PM PST by Sabertooth
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