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LightEye

10-10-2007, 10:27 AM

Dear Friends,

Wasn't sure were I was going to post this, but another great blog from DW ;-)

http://www.divinecosmos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=360&Itemid=70

Be Well, Be Love.

David

Your DNA is Changing! (Part I)
Tuesday 10/9/07

Bullet-proof scientific data confirms what mystics have said for thousands of years — life is being guided by an outside, intelligent force permeating the Cosmos.

ARE YOU AN ACCIDENT?

Do you believe you are an accident?

Do you owe your life to a series of random, unpredictable mutations?

Are you now able to read these words because your ancestors were the most adept at killing each other?

Is your life a statistical fluke, seen nowhere else but Earth due to the towering impossibility of it ever happening again?

If you believe anything other than Darwinian evolution, does that automatically make you a Fundamentalist zealot?

LightEye

10-10-2007, 01:13 PM

Dear Friends,

Here's more...

http://anthropology.net/2007/10/09/new-publications-on-human-genetic-variation-and-genome-evolution/

Be Well, Be Love.

David

New publications on Human Genetic Variation and Genome Evolution

It is not yet 7 a.m. and I’ve already been flooded with hot new anthropology related publications. There are so many that I don’t know where to start. I’ve got papers on human genetic variation and human genome evolution, comparisons of human versus Neandertal dental development, and the lack of archaeological evidence during mega droughts in Africa. I’ll start on the human genetic variation and genome evolution papers in this post. If I find more time, we’ll talk about the dental anthropolog and the archeology paper later today.

First things first, a couple weeks ago an interesting paper was published in Science, “Paired-End Mapping Reveals Extensive Structural Variation in the Human Genome,” which announced a new technique to study the differences between the structures in the human genome. The authors found out that the number of structural variations among genomes of the humans they sampled is much larger than initially hypothesized. The authors extended the hypothesis that structural variations do far more to human genetic variation and diversity than single nucleotide polymorphisms. The pressed loved this. They went crazy over it, but that hypothesis isn’t breaking news. Actually in February 2006, Nature Reviews Genetics, ran this paper, “Structural variation in the human genome,” where they wrote,

“The first wave of information from the analysis of the human genome revealed SNPs to be the main source of genetic and phenotypic human variation. However, the advent of genome-scanning technologies has now uncovered an unexpectedly large extent of what we term ’structural variation’ in the human genome. This comprises microscopic and, more commonly, submicroscopic variants, which include deletions, duplications and large-scale copy-number variants — collectively termed copy-number variants or copy-number polymorphisms — as well as insertions, inversions and translocations. Rapidly accumulating evidence indicates that structural variants can comprise millions of nucleotides of heterogeneity within every genome, and are likely to make an important contribution to human diversity and disease susceptibility.”