Funny you should ask. I talked with Ed Max on the phone yesterday. My
latest issue of Acts and Facts (what a misnomer!) reported a recent debate
he had with Duane Gish. What Max discovered was two processed pseudo-
genes that are common to man, gorilla, and chimp. I personally think the
argument for shared common ancestry is solid on that point.
He gave me two references concerning retroposons which are also
copied and passed along with nuclear DNA:
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Vol. 22, 1985, pp 316-322.
Vol. 24, 1986, pp 94-102.
As an aside, I asked Ed Max why he published in a popular journal rather
than in _Cell_ or one of the scholarly medical journals. His response
was that shared common ancestry was so commonly accepted among his peers,
he is a gene researcher at NIH, that there was no need to tell them what
they already knew. It would be tantamount to announcing to a group of
geologists that you had just discovered a way to make diamonds out of
coal. They would all wonder where you've been.
Dick Fischer
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