In the thread about "Nested Biological Hierarchies"
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Message 87
WK gives a partial comment on an AIG article.
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Aside from this, the GLO gene apparently can make jumps in between the evolutionary tree.
Evidence Against Pseudogene Shared Mistakes
| Answers in Genesis
The evidence for this seems a bit limp. Certainly there are sites shared between the human and guinea pig sequences which aren't in rat but all that means is that the rat is different. Without more sequences showing that the Rat sequence represents the ancestral sequence I'm not sure how you can argue that this provides any evidence for the GLO pseudogene 'jumping'.
I have been reading over the article. It claims to show that reseach casts doubt on the idea of pseudogenese being support for common ancestry.
I don't thinik the above answers AIG on this and I don't have enough genetics to be able to begin to discuss it. I would appreciate seeing what the geneticists have to say.
I think this belongs in Biological Evolution
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