[Ahban]

I will be delighted to look at any information on viral corruption of gametes that Sentis can provide. If the case can be made that this can close the apparent DNA gap then let's get out with it.

If I can appeal to a Designer to explain the gene gap I guess its only fair that you can appeal to a virus. Still, it should be a lot easier to test whether virii are up to the job than a Desinger who is outside the three'D plus time universe.

[Sentis]

here are a few web sites to peruse about the viruses role in evolution.

http://www.microbeworld.org/htm/aboutmicro/microbes/types/virus.htm

http://www.discover.com/nov_02/breakvirus.html

and here is one about the role of testosterone in human evolution which has little to do with what we are talking about but is interesting as i ran into it while researching this topic.

http://www.naples.net/~nfn03605/dheaandr.htm




The amazing thing about viruses and evolution is that they may even be the key player in evolution among related species. They can encode the hosts dna into their own and transpose that dna to other cells or even into other animals. This means that for example a virus could take the dna information that expresses for blue eyes from one human and infect another human without that info encoding some of his cells with that information. Does this mean that the second host will express blue eyes in his offspring?probably not. What it does mean is that the virus has transposed that info into another being and may become active one generation or a hundred generations later.

In the Human/Chimp case something else is probably active in our differences in species. Human's have a linked chromosome and chimps do not. Which accounts for a massive difference in Humans and chimps. The linked chromosomes in Human's can be possible because a virus at some point linked the two creating a single chromosome in one family of organisms that evolved into humans. The Creatures without the linked chromosomes became chimps.