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Coragyps · 02-06-2002, 03:03 PM

<a href="http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mchox.htm" target="_blank">This page</a> from U. Cal., San Diego, appears to me to be very significant in showing how a particular Hox gene could have led to the evolution of the body plans of various phyla. The article specifically calls out creationist arguments against the "non-observation" of macroevolution.
One of you biologists with online access to Nature needs to read the article and give us all (another, simple) summary.

ps418 · 02-06-2002, 04:34 PM

Some more good stuff from the latest issue of PNAS:

<a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/3/1399" target="_blank">mtDNA from fossils reveals a radiation of Hawaiian geese recently derived from the Canada goose (Branta canadensis) </a>

<a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/3/1420" target="_blank">The origin of the eukaryotic cell: A genomic investigation</a>

theyeti · 02-06-2002, 05:56 PM

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Originally posted by Coragyps:
<strong><a href="http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mchox.htm" target="_blank">This page</a> from U. Cal., San Diego, appears to me to be very significant in showing how a particular Hox gene could have led to the evolution of the body plans of various phyla. The article specifically calls out creationist arguments against the "non-observation" of macroevolution.
One of you biologists with online access to Nature needs to read the article and give us all (another, simple) summary.</strong>

Check out <a href="http://www.arn.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001748.html" target="_blank">this thread</a> at ARN. It appears that Wells was quoted in a piece for the Discovery Institute criticizing this. Unfortunately for him, he got even the basic facts wrong -- it appears that he didn't even read the paper.

theyeti

RufusAtticus · 02-06-2002, 06:06 PM

I'm going to retreive it and post comments, if I have time.

-RvFvS

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Coragyps Veteran Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Snyder,Texas,USA Posts: 4,411	Diversification advances? <a href="http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mchox.htm" target="_blank">This page</a> from U. Cal., San Diego, appears to me to be very significant in showing how a particular Hox gene could have led to the evolution of the body plans of various phyla. The article specifically calls out creationist arguments against the "non-observation" of macroevolution. One of you biologists with online access to Nature needs to read the article and give us all (another, simple) summary.

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ps418 Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Louisville, KY, USA Posts: 1,840	Some more good stuff from the latest issue of PNAS: <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/3/1399" target="_blank">mtDNA from fossils reveals a radiation of Hawaiian geese recently derived from the Canada goose (Branta canadensis) </a> <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/3/1420" target="_blank">The origin of the eukaryotic cell: A genomic investigation</a>

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RufusAtticus Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NCSU Posts: 5,853	I'm going to retreive it and post comments, if I have time. -RvFvS

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