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03-08-2013 9:58 PM

An article in the Science Recorder reports:
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Researchers from the University of Michigan have found evidence of reverse evolution in house dust mites. This discovery contradicts the belief that once an organism has evolved certain traits, it will never again act like its ancestors.
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Does anyone know anything about this? Is the media just screwing the story up completely, or is this truly the revolutionary discovery that it's portrayed as? I have more questions and thoughts, but I'm hoping someone here can explain things.
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03-08-2013 11:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by NoNukes
03-08-2013 11:34 PM

That was one of the thoughts I had. I have no problem with the idea that it's so unlikely that past mutations will reverse themselves that we can discard that possibility. But that doesn't seem the same thing as saying that an organism can't go from non-parasitic to parasitic to non-parasitic again. I can easily imagine that the mutations that might change it from parasitic to non-parasitic would be completely different from the mutations that made it parasitic in the first place.
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I hope this makes as much sense in writing as it does in my head.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
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We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
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It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
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Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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