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h1s_l0rdsh1p
22-03-2007, 01:10 PM
According to this artical:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1539281.ece

Evolution doesn't need sex in order to happen, it can happen to creatures while alive.


A tiny creature that has not had sex for 100 million years has overturned the theory that animals need to mate to create variety.

Analysis of the jaw shapes of bdelloid rotifers, combined with genetic data, revealed that the animals have diversified under pressure of natural selection.

Researchers say that their study “refutes the idea that sex is necessary for diversification into evolutionary species”


Kinda makes you think.

Anders Lindman
22-03-2007, 01:49 PM
Random mutations and survival for the fittest is only one perspective of evolution imnsho (in my not so humble opinion) Hahaha. Humans are the result of random mutations and interaction with the environment. That's probably a valid description, but what many of today's old-school Darwinian scientists fail to include in their reductionist picture is a more comprehensive explanation of what the interaction with the environment fully is. Because the whole process of evolution is mindbogglingly complex. Random mutations in the human genome that is not much larger than for a simple worm (as was for mainstream scientists the surprising result from the Human Genome Project) is enough to explain how humans have evolved?! They must be kidding. :D