I question the researcher's conclusion also, but for a different reason.
He says: "The researchers say that the mutation wasn't selected out of the population because its effects don't occur until after the childbearing years."
Thus one concludes that mutations which affect populations before childbearing years should not exist - they should all be selected out of populations (especially over millions of years).
Why do childhood diseases exist, if the population has been around for millions of years, and if natural selection weans out pre-childbearing diseases?
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I question the researcher's conclusion also, but for a different reason.
He says:
"The researchers say that the mutation wasn't selected out of the population because its effects don't occur until after the childbearing years."
Thus one concludes that mutations which affect populations before childbearing years should not exist - they should all be selected out of populations (especially over millions of years).
Why do childhood diseases exist, if the population has been around for millions of years, and if natural selection weans out pre-childbearing diseases?
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Therefore, here's a cached copy from Google:
http://tinyurl.com/7amp7