Re: How long for mutations to spread?

On Jun 19, 1:20 am, Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
derdag wrote:
On Jun 17, 2:09 am, chadmaester <chad.d.john...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If say half a dozen people in Africa were born with a resistance to
AIDS, would the resistant genes eventually dominate (assuming the
pertinent genes were dominant)?

Some evolutionists are studying male beetles growing spiked penii,
and watching how fast female beetles develope armor plated vaginae to
get at that answer. First of all, you must assume that the genetic
code which leads to the complex protein structure of the spikes is a
mutation, rather than fully formed code which had existed. Then, you
have to assume that accidental mutations over time allowed females to
thicken their vaginas. I figure that spikes harm the entire chances
of the reproductive encounter and that after one year, the spiked
penii are not selected by the gene pool. The females have 0 time to
mutate the thicker folds. NONE. It isn't a situation which looks
like random mutation over time.

They'll have some answer, soon.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281697,00.html

Some people will not know enough to doubt the results of the study and
assert that it is purely mutational.

I can tell something's wrong with this. Someone like to unpack it for
me?

http://www.ebc.uu.se/zooeko/GoranA/GA.htmlseems to be the actual
scientist's (or "scientist's", you choose) Web page in English. Andhttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v415/n6873/abs/415787a.html
implies that they don't make species evolve under the microscope, they
look at closely related species that have different degrees of spiky-
willy-ness. An evolutionary arms race, viewed on a human timescale,
looks a lot like stalemate.

But then again... over human history (we assume), the baramin of dogs
has been bred into many very different (similar) breeds. Presumably
these bugs have a much shorter time between generations, and the
scientists are only trying to make their wieners bigger... the bugs,
that is. And a great deal of research has gone into that already. I
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I'm just going to tramp on the little buggers. I already don't like
them. They are acting like these misfits we have here, slicing their
peckers down the middle, inserting pearls under the skin, for bumps,
hanging rings and sticking bars through their dicks. Those beetles
are homosexual and just haven't figured it out yet. I hope that they
don't pass their mutation down.

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