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Evolution is not evolutionary!
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RE: Evolution is not evolutionary!
(August 24, 2017 at 10:17 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Okay, your cancer analogy is not all together applicable to evolution in bacteria, although it is a little more applicable to evolution in more complex organisms.

Evolution occurs when the genes of a particular organism is altered in such a way that the organism becomes more likely to succeed in reproducing in the environment in which it find itself.   However, bacterias are unlike more complex organisms in that bacterias engage in lateral gene transfer.  This means different bacterias in the same environment can trade genes without reproduction.  So bacteria's heritable traits are not entirely defined by the genes it inherited when it first came into existence.   When a bacteria reproduce, it can be passing on genes it didn't inherited from its parent.  So evolution in bacteria are far more chaotic and less susceptible to a clean inheritance model that work for more complex cells.

(August 24, 2017 at 10:16 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Evolution is change through time. Not a runaway growth that ends up dead.

There are cancer cells that can spread to other individuals and thus continue to propagate even if the cancer kills the original host.
Yep, change through time. But your example is just stupid.
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Evolution is not evolutionary! - by ignoramus - August 24, 2017 at 8:03 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 8:24 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by vorlon13 - August 24, 2017 at 9:06 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Anomalocaris - August 24, 2017 at 9:14 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by zebo-the-fat - August 24, 2017 at 9:18 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 9:20 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Anomalocaris - August 24, 2017 at 9:22 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Anomalocaris - August 24, 2017 at 9:21 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by The Valkyrie - August 24, 2017 at 5:23 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Fireball - August 24, 2017 at 7:48 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by vorlon13 - August 24, 2017 at 9:21 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Cyberman - August 24, 2017 at 12:32 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by vorlon13 - August 24, 2017 at 1:29 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Court Jester - August 24, 2017 at 9:29 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Anomalocaris - August 24, 2017 at 9:32 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 10:01 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Court Jester - August 24, 2017 at 10:02 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Anomalocaris - August 24, 2017 at 10:06 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Court Jester - August 24, 2017 at 10:07 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 10:16 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Anomalocaris - August 24, 2017 at 10:17 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 1:19 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Court Jester - August 24, 2017 at 11:43 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Anomalocaris - August 24, 2017 at 11:47 am
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Court Jester - August 24, 2017 at 3:05 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 5:17 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Cyberman - August 24, 2017 at 3:29 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by The Valkyrie - August 24, 2017 at 8:00 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 8:26 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Court Jester - August 24, 2017 at 8:36 pm
RE: Evolution is not evolutionary! - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 24, 2017 at 9:34 pm



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