Re: A fully developed creature can evolve?

r norman wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2005 07:01:41 -0700, "Artificer" <eliezerfigueroa@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>>I have a curiosity!. A fully developed creature like an adult human
>>being is likely to suffer minor genetics (evolutionary) changes during
>>its live or the genetic deviation from the parents always occur during
>>de conception and formation of the creature? This question is about
>>complex creatures not for bacterial organisms!
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> You seem to be thinking about evolution incorrectly. It does not have
> to do with genetic events in an individual, but in a population. No
> single creature, human or bacterium, can evolve because of changes to
> its genetic material during its lifetime.

As a tangent (please, Artificer, ignore this branch of the thread, as it
deals with an obscure exception to R. Norman's reasonably correct
statement), is there competition within a chimera? It seems that for
each tissue type (which I will leave conveniently undefined), one member
of the chimera dominates it. What mechanisms would tend to make this so?
Simple developmental issues (Jane's blood cell's got there first, so
Jane gets all the blood), immunological issues involved with the
coexistence of two beings, or is it an actual competion between the two
choices for each cell type?

I suspect that competition between the members of a chimera is
inevitable, but I'm interested in others' thoughts.

KWW

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