Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes

ddutt writes "NY Times is running a story that talks of an exciting new discovery, which, if confirmed, could represent an unprecedented exception to Mendel's laws of inheritance. The discovery involves.. 'plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.'"

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Re:How this impacts evolutionary theory

[DogDude]

Unfortunately, the human species is already going downhill fast. We have the most intelligent people NOT breeding, and the idiots breeding like rabbits. Our hospitals (at least in the modern world) keep all kinds of unhealthy people alive, and stupid people are saved time and time again from their own stupidity by excellent health care. I'd love to see a real study of these issues, but I fear that any kind of study that tackles these issues will be shouted down by BOTH the Religious Righteous and the Politically inCorrect, just like the "Bell Curve" study was.