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Do Shared ERVs Support Common Ancestry?
| May 26, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under Intelligent Design |
In my previous article, I discussed the background of one of the most commonly made arguments for primate common ancestry. In this article, I want to examine the first of the three layers of evidence offered by a popular-level article written about this subject. Read More>>>
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JonathanM you are doing a mighty fine job giving atheistic Darwinists sleepless nights!
Look forward to the following posts!
Depends on what they share!
If they share a common ancestry, I’d have to say yes.
I think there must be a mistake in the article. There is an edited quote from Yohn, et al (2005):
“Based on analysis of finished BAC chimpanzee genome sequence, we characterize a retroviral element (Pan troglodytes endogenous retrovirus 1 [PTERV1]) that has become integrated in the germline of African great ape and Old World monkey species but is absent from humans and Asian ape genomes … Six out of ten of these genes, for which there are expression data, show significant differences in transcript expression between human and chimpanzee”
So, a retroviral element is present in African great apes but absent in humans . . . six out of ten of these genes show differences between human and chimps.
How is the first phrase related to the second?
@ ellazimm,
Thanks for flagging this up. I can see the possible confusion there. I have made an amendment.
Cheers,
J
Jonathan, that’s much better, thanks! Looking forward to the final instalment.