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The footnotes are found at the end of the original article. Underlining is not found in the original article (it's the work of your humble poster).

Why post this article? It's presumably evidence of genes skipping over intermediate species. Very curious stuff.

1 posted on 12/16/2003 6:52:46 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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2 posted on 12/16/2003 6:53:43 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Hic amor, haec patria est.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Flies and worms and other bugs do share a lot of genes involving the basic biochemistry of life. It's just that some of the morphology stuff got "dropped".
3 posted on 12/16/2003 6:59:39 AM PST by samtheman
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To: PatrickHenry
Why post this article? It's presumably evidence of genes skipping over intermediate species. Very curious stuff

No, it isn't evidence of that. Drosophila and Caenorhabditis are not our ancestors, and they're not intermediate species, they're way off on other branches of our family tree, branches that are likely at least 600 my long.

The common ancestor of corals and humans had the gene. That creature would also have been an ancestor of nematodes and arthropods. The gene was lost early in the lineage of nematodes and of arthropods, but retained in the primitive chordates. It's not the first example of this.

5 posted on 12/16/2003 7:06:44 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: PatrickHenry; 4ConservativeJustices
My great-great-great-great-great-great--etc.-etc. grampaw--Mr. Coral. No wonder I'm so abrasive???
6 posted on 12/16/2003 7:09:50 AM PST by Ff--150 (The blessing of the Lord maketh rich)
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To: PatrickHenry
"The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

Happy Thoughts by Robert Louis Stevenson

7 posted on 12/16/2003 7:12:59 AM PST by thinktwice (America is truly blessed ... with George W. Bush as President..)
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To: PatrickHenry
You could have entitled an article about coral Reefer Madness.
8 posted on 12/16/2003 7:13:38 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: PatrickHenry
YEC SKEPTICAL INTREP
13 posted on 12/16/2003 7:39:55 AM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: PatrickHenry
Not intermediate if segment into basic family groups: vertabrets, invertabrets and crustation/exoskeletal creature.
14 posted on 12/16/2003 7:46:26 AM PST by RussianConservative (Hristos: the Light of the World)
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To: PatrickHenry
Bush did it.
18 posted on 12/16/2003 8:00:43 AM PST by pabianice
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To: PatrickHenry
Maybe they're not intermediate. They're a separate lineage.
22 posted on 12/16/2003 8:35:28 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: PatrickHenry
Why post this article?
Indeed! I will take this up at the annual meeting of Darwin Central Command (int), and it might mean we have to change our secret, conspiratory handshake to one you won't recongnize.
28 posted on 12/16/2003 11:30:48 AM PST by anguish (while science catches up.... mysticism!)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah; Desdemona
ping
30 posted on 12/16/2003 1:25:28 PM PST by nickcarraway (www.terrisfight.org)
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To: PatrickHenry; Right Wing Professor; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; All
Conservation of design schemas, regardless of the notions of some who are the products of those schemas, as to how such things should be ordered over time.
32 posted on 12/16/2003 2:52:39 PM PST by unspun ("Do everything in love." | No I don't look anything like her but I do like to hear "Unspun w/ AnnaZ")
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To: PatrickHenry
Well, the creationists have said all along that the Theory of Evolution is a shell game.
34 posted on 12/16/2003 7:49:38 PM PST by August West (To each according to his ability, from each according to his need...)
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To: PatrickHenry
You left out the subheading:

Invertebrate DNA raises questions about evolution models


38 posted on 12/22/2003 10:55:36 AM PST by tallhappy
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