From: Josh Bembenek (jbembe@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 15:36:48 EDT
Dr. Campbell-
Why not start with "an explanation of these observations." Varying
chromosome numbers between closely related species is the observation.
Josh
>From: "bivalve" <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
>Reply-To: <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
>To: "Josh Bembenek" <jbembe@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: "Design up to Scratch?" (The Wit and Wisdom of Michael
>Roberts)
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:49:11 -0400
>
> >Finally, with all of this bravado about the utility and creative capacity
>of evolution, Debbie's important question is ignored completely. <
>
>I have not reviewed the postings, but what exactly is her important
>question?
>
> >Debbie- I have a colleague who works on muntjack deer cells studying
>telomerase. He has raised the same issue to me in our discussions of
>evolution quoting the fact that several closely related species of deer
>have dramatically different chromosome numbers (although he believes
>evolution, he at least acknowledges the problem areas.) An explanation for
>such observations is beyond us at this point. But I wait patiently with
>you for someone who carries a lot of rhetoric to start providing some
>actual explanations.<
>
>How is the variation in chromosome number a problem for evolution? I am
>not sure what needs explained.
>
>
> Dr. David Campbell
> Old Seashells
> University of Alabama
> Biodiversity & Systematics
> Dept. Biological Sciences
> Box 870345
> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
> bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
>
>That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
>Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
>Droitgate Spa
>
>
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