Hi David,
"Let's say civilization as we know it collapses, this bug escapes into the wild and continues to evolve, and scientists working in a rebuilt society in the far future reconstruct the evolved bug's genetic history. Would they be able to conclude that it was originally designed?"
Unless the signature is tied to biological function, mutatiions would scramble it and eventually erase it. A signature without biological function = junk DNA.
-Mike Gene
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Received on Wed Jun 4 13:45:51 2008
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