Re: uhh? why not evolution?

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:03:55 -0400

--JQ: is there need to break apart sentences?  At least give me mysentences.  There is no improvement with reguard to fruit flies.  

How do you know ? You were talking about new limbs, organs etc.

> The fruit fly's have been very usefull for studying ageing. Thier>life span has been increased through selective breeding not mutations.

Selective breeding uses the variations resulting from mutations andselection of traits to increase the frequency of certain mutations.Not a bad example of evolution I would say.

"Most of the mutations Morgan and his collegues detected in Drosophilawere point mutations."

A view of life, Luria, Gould and Singer, p 237

Regards

Pim