Watch Evolution Unfold


Time In A Bottle: Scientists Watch Evolution Unfold
www.sciencedaily.com/.../091018141716.htm


- "demonstrates natural selection at work"

Natural selection is involved only in a small fraction of evolution, in cases of genetic accidents. Normal evolution is an evolution of culture, of reaction to circumstances, fed back to the genes, who consequently modify their expressions accordingly, by way of alternative splicing.

- "By the 20,000-generation midpoint, researchers discovered 45 mutations among surviving cells"

They did not "discover", but uncover, the "mutations", which were not mutations but alternatively spliced genes in response to the conditions of the culture. (It is not a coincidence that a community of monocell organisms is termed a culture. It is a culture just as a community of multicell organisms).

- "Those mutations, according to Darwin's theory, should have conferred some advantage, and that's exactly what the researchers found."

What the reserchers uncovered (not found, no more found than Columbus found America when stumbling upon it) is NOT "mutations that conferred advantage". They uncovered what has been known and explained for the past several years, i.e. that cultural advantages induced genetic changes, manifest in the form of changed expressions of genes.


It seems that mundane scientific decadence blinds 21st century science to the lifehood of genes.

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Updated Life's Manifest May 2009
www.the-scientist.com/.../122.page#2321
Implications Of E=Total[m(1 + D)]
www.the-scientist.com/.../122.page#3108