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Old 08-13-2003, 03:29 PM   #22 (permalink)
kw42
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Quote:
Originally posted by BullHazzer
To evolve wouldn't we have to gain genetic information? Our gnome would have to advance and gain material and information. But all valid and measurable data we have about mutations and 'current evolving' shows a degradation and loss of information.
The amount of material in the genome is not indicitive of the complexity of the organism. A human has an average of 2,900mil base pairs of DNA. A frog, 6,900mil bp. A fruit fly, 180mil. An amoeba, 620,000mil bp.

So I'm not really following the argument that less information in the genome and 'advancement' have anything in common.

http://pga.lbl.gov/Workshop/Nov2002/...es/Nobrega.pdf for more information
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