Asexual Worm Quickly Adapts To Soil Contamination
by MikeGeneIt would be interesting to decipher the mechanisms employed to accomplish this:
Soil contaminants lead to rapid genetic adaptations in the nematode Acrobeloides nanus. The worms from contaminated soil live longer and lay more eggs under polluted conditions than the worms from unpolluted soil"¦"¦ The rapid adaptation to the environment in an asexual species is an interesting finding. It contradicts the general opinion that asexual species have low adaptive potential and that they adapt to stress less easily than sexual species.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:51 am
What's 'adaptive potential' when it's at home?
I do hope it isn't this:
'The fit survive because they're fit and they're fit because they survive because they're fit survivors endowed with fitness that's conducive to survival of the fit',
ahem, Explanation"¦
Comment by stunney — May 15, 2007 @ 2:51 am
May 15th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Hi Mike,
Yeah, more interesting science stuff.
This kind of evidence points to more holistic evolutionary mechanisms at work than might otherwise thought. Or as you said in the other thread "an easily reprogrammable system might just be what the designer ordered when having to take RM + NS into account. ".
It also shows why even ID proponents shouldn't carelessly discard everything the "other side" is saying.
Got to run.
Regards,
TP
P.S. Here is the link to the NWO the acticle you quoted was "based on". It looks like a copy and paste to me.
Comment by Thought Provoker — May 15, 2007 @ 1:14 pm
May 15th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
TP, "It also shows why even ID proponents shouldn't carelessly discard everything the "other side" is saying."
I, like many IDers, recongize that there is a lot of truth in the modern evolutionary theory. Its just that MET does not explain it all.
Comment by bFast — May 15, 2007 @ 6:29 pm