Question:
Why do we not see more positive mutations in human beings?
RANDY
2011-01-02 12:52:23 UTC
Because of our amazing population explosion, I would guess that the vast majority of human dna has been produced in historical times, say the past 7,000 years. If that is the case, then why are not new traits that natural selection might have worked upon expressed many times in human history. There have been perhaps 20 billion human babies born since writing-- I would guess this surpasses the number of millenia of births taking us from our most recent ancestor. Where are the positive mutations? I see a few ie cycle cell in single-does, skin-tone. Mathematically it seems that we should see thousands of times more than we do. I am mathematically trained and so hope for help from those with a life-sciences background. Thanks!
Three answers:
zerglingRAGE
2011-01-02 13:01:21 UTC
it doesn't take thousands of years it takes hundreds of thousands of years.just because there's tons of babies borndoesn't mean there's going to be a new mutation every thousandth baby it all takes time and even then we dont know.we cant make these complicated or even simple math equations to predict when we will have mutations, it all takes lots of times
shroud
2011-01-02 21:02:50 UTC
1 your most recent ancestor is mom and dad

2 we have got to a place where we fix or somehow compensate for any need to mutate

say if a blood type were weaker than the others it would be fazed out by mutations but we now would find a way to fix that issue we have not stopped mutations but it should be easy to figure out we have managed to slow it down
2011-01-02 20:57:40 UTC
Because evolution is a hoax.Go ahead show me proof of it I dare you


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