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Ryan

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From: Tennessee

Registered: 01-02-09

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"Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution"

I don't know how recent these ideas are, but this is something new to me.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 … ?full=true

bob_2

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Registered: 12-28-08

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Re: "Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution"

Ryan, complex stuff, but it appears to me to be a description of microevolution. It has always been lateral or horizontal within type or kind. The fact that one microbe can "mate" with another microbe would make it part of it's kind. The leap come when you assume how the helixes were formed in the first place (where the parts came from) and that various microbes started other kinds, fish, reptiles.....etc is really making a leap. Are the codons, proof of a universal ancestor or a universal designer???? I still maintain that MacroEvolution  (vertical ) still has never successfully happened. Not sure this microbial study make it more possible or just interesting that this microbe could fuse with this microbe. But, maybe I don't understand their point.