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Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision
Oswald McWeany writes "Reports swirling around the Internet are that a boy in China may have cat-like night vision. The boy with eerie blue-eyes was able to fill out a questionnaire in the dark and his eyes reflect like a cat's when a light is shined on them. No reports yet if he marks his territory or is litter box trained."
That isn't how mutation works. There does not need to be a goal for something to happen. This could be the result of a single gene affecting the expression of many proteins, or it could be a mutation that activated some of the dormant genetic material.
From an evolutionary standpoint, I would think such a radical mutation impossible
From a reading-that-statement standpoint, I would think you having more than minimal education in the biological sciences would be impossible.
Mutations are a contributing factor to evolution, not a sole cause of it, or caused by it. There is no "evolutionary standpoint" on a single mutation occuring.
That being said, it may be an *unlikely* mutation, but with over 7billion people, quite a few people will have rather unlikely mutations. And a single point mutation could conceivably cause a change the density of photoreceptor in the eye, how good they are at capturing photons (the human eye "sees" only about 4-5% of the photons that pass through it).
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Wouldn't he be denied work there because he can see how bad he really has it?