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All Humans Are Mutants, Say Scientists
Hugh Pickens writes "In 1935, JBS Haldane, one of the founders of modern genetics, studied a group of men with the blood disease hemophilia and speculated that there would be about 150 new mutations in each human being. Now BBC reports that scientists have used next generation sequencing technology to produce a far more direct and reliable estimate of the number of mutations by looking at thousands of genes belonging to two Chinese men who are distantly related, having shared a common ancestor who was born in 1805. To establish the rate of mutation, the team examined an area of the Y chromosome which is unique because, apart from rare mutations, the Y chromosome is passed unchanged from father to son so mutations accumulate slowly over the generations. Despite many generations of separation, researchers found only 12 differences among all the DNA letters examined. The two Y chromosomes were still identical at 10,149,073 of the 10,149,085 letters examined."
And here we have scientific evidence that human mutation is working as Designed.
Weird, I'm suddenly craving a bowl of spaghetti.
My mutant super power is my ability to get depressed and lose focus. Oh man, I wish I'd gotten that cool one that gives you resistance to malaria and painfully inflamed fingers and toes. Mine seems kinda useless by comparison.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I for one, welcome us all! :)
That cant be generally true otherwise all Chinese people would look identical. oh wait...
Try this in Alabama, where they can use the terms wife,mother,and daughter interchangeably.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
I seem to remember them saying that the mutations come from the father, how women are mutants I don't know.
I have shocking news for you, you may want to have a seat: women have fathers, just like men. Disturbing, I know.
It's funny how you add "(I bike to work.)" as if that makes it less weird. :)
Yes, I was thinking the same. The very idea of evolution is based on mutation, and Evolution requires it as well.
Unless you live in Kansas......
Everyone knows you can't ride a bike in your regular clothes. You have to look like a total moron.
It is ... now fishnets on the other hand are quite comfy....
Time to shock the family by dressing as Doctor Frank N furter again.....
Nothing like making the parents of children run screaming from the house during Halloween night.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
That sound isn't whistling. What you are hearing is actually laughter distorted by the Doppler effect.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.