http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/whales Whales are mammals whose ancestors lived on land. So how did they evolve into the sea creatures of today? Based on illustrations by Carl Buell and displayed as part of the Whales Tohorā exhibition.
@hisham031170 ERVs are like other mutations of the genome: most are neutral and have no function at all. The deleterious ones have been weeded out by natural selection and very few gained a function (syncityn).
But the function of ERVs is irrelevant for the proof that chimps and humans have a common ancestor. Do you agree that the ERVs in our DNA are relicts of virus attacks? Is there macroevolution at all between chimps and humans (there are no new genes AFAIK).
Holy shit!! They had legs!! It makes total sense though, so I'm not completely shocked. It's still really cool to see how vastly different they looked when they walked on land though :D!
Are you serious?!
Fusion840 2 hours ago
@hisham031170 "How do you test (falsify) macroevolution? "
Find a Pre Cambrian rabbit, demonstrate no shared genes (especially spliced ones) humans with other apes.
Have fun.
ozowen 6 hours ago
Whales have no sense of smell (no olfactory bulb) but they still have hundreds of pseudogenes for smelling in the air (olfactory receptor genes).
kereng5 9 hours ago
@hisham031170 ERVs are like other mutations of the genome: most are neutral and have no function at all. The deleterious ones have been weeded out by natural selection and very few gained a function (syncityn).
But the function of ERVs is irrelevant for the proof that chimps and humans have a common ancestor. Do you agree that the ERVs in our DNA are relicts of virus attacks? Is there macroevolution at all between chimps and humans (there are no new genes AFAIK).
kereng5 9 hours ago
Holy shit!! They had legs!! It makes total sense though, so I'm not completely shocked. It's still really cool to see how vastly different they looked when they walked on land though :D!
BlueDragonFuze 11 hours ago
@zimmermjaz I did, and it's dead. Sorry for your pikachu.
hisham031170 11 hours ago
@kereng5 First of all, do you equate ERV's in the DNA as junk DNA? One with no function whatsoever?
hisham031170 11 hours ago
@hisham031170
Have a look at the distribution of Endogenous Retroviruses in the DNA of chimps and humans.
kereng5 17 hours ago