>There are some guys working with fruit fly here at the university were I
>work, and I don't think they are just watching fruit fly reproduce to see
>if they are mutated. I'm pretty sure these guys are doing some crazy
>genetic fooling around, they are constantly looking a DNA and trying to do
>stupid things to the flys. Like make them have a head at each end of the
>body and stuff like that. I think that would have an effect on the required
>number of years.
Absolutely. If the experimenters don't apply constant selective pressure,
then the number of years required to see a change goes up, not down.
glenn
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