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WOW - I cannot believe the false premise this entire article is based on. This is Epigenetics, not mutation or evolution!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigene
by goggles99 14y ago
WOW - I cannot believe the false premise this entire article is based on. This is Epigenetics, not mutation or evolution!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html
The article itself says
>Two hundred thousand years later, around 10,000 B.C., this began to change. A genetic mutation appeared, somewhere near modern-day Turkey, that jammed the lactase-production gene permanently in the “on” position.
This is NOT a genetic mutation. The gene was already there but not turned on past the toddler years. I searched this entire page of comments and no one knows or points this out?