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Sam Stone wrote:
> Bama Brian wrote:
> > Sam Stone wrote:
> >> Trevor Wilson wrote:
> >>> "Sam Stone" <sirian@mental.org> wrote in message
> >>> news:NBnBd.5710936$yk.863844@news.easynews.com...
> >>>> Trevor Wilson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> them, among other evidence. "Micro-Evolution," or change of genes
> >>>>>> within
> >>>>>> species, is possible, however, as the breeding of dogs and the
> >>>>>> Bible itself
> >>>>>> attest.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> **Altering of genes within a species, IS evolution.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes it is, and huge gaps in the fossil record belie claims of a
> >>>> complete evolutionary progression for many of the species known as
> >>>> native to this planet.
> >>>
> >>> **Are you aware of what conditions are required for fossils to form?
> >>
> >> Are you aware that the LUCY hypothesis is at best tenuous?
> >
> >
> > Are you aware that Lucy was just one of many fossils found, all telling
> > the same story - that before humans, there were other types of hominids
> > that walked on two legs?
> 
> Well now, "before humans" is a start - as it NOT related to humans!

Most lines died out and one survived to evolve into humans. 
 
> > Are you aware that humans and chimps share over 98% of their genes?
> 
> Are you aware we share so much commonality in certain genetics with rats
> that they are favored lab analogs.

As are other animals - like pigs and rabbits (as in the cosmetics industry).

You're aware that humans and chickens share about 60% of their genes?

 http://www.genome.gov/12514316
 BETHESDA, Md., Wed., Dec. 8, 2004 - An international research consortium
 has found that chickens and humans share more than half of their genes,
 but that their DNA sequences diverge in ways that may explain some of the
 important differences between birds and mammals. The consortium's
 analysis is published in the Dec. 9 issue of the journal Nature.
 ...
 About 60 percent of chicken genes correspond to a similar human gene.
 However, researchers uncovered more small sequence differences between
 corresponding pairs of chicken and human genes, which are 75 percent
 identical on average, than between rodent and human gene pairs, which
 are 88 percent identical on average. Differences between human and
 chicken genes were not uniform across the board, however. Chicken genes
 involved in the cell's basic structure and function showed more sequence
 similarity with human genes than did those implicated in reproduction,
 immune response and adaptation to the environment.

 The analysis also showed that genes conserved between human and chicken
 often are also conserved in fish. For example, 72 percent of the
 corresponding pairs of chicken and human genes also possess a
 counterpart in the genome of the puffer fish (Takifugu rubripes).
 According to the researchers, these genes are likely to be present in
 most vertebrates.

 "Genomes of the chicken and other species distant from ourselves have
 provided us with a powerful tool to resolve key biological processes
 that have been conserved over millennia," said Richard Wilson, Ph.D.,
 of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the consortium's
 leader and senior author of the Nature article. "Along with the many
 similarities between the chicken and human genomes, we discovered some
 fascinating differences that are shedding new light on what distinguishes
 birds from mammals." 
 ...

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