Originally posted by AllianceWe're talking genetic mutation right? If not my bad. If we are, then it isn't the cause of deformity in frogs, just the parasites. But yah, pollution is apart of what is making the parasites more common and the frogs' immunity lower.
Mutation due to pollution. Parasites might cause it, but every case I'v ehead of has been pollution related.
Originally posted by debbiejo
It's the pollution........It's environmental....and we're next. 😠
Lets calm down.
Originally posted by FeceMan
Also, it's not true that mutations cause deformity, sterility, and sickliness--there are often beneficial mutations from the removal of deleterious (I like that word) genes.
yes to the last part. But I garuntee you if I f*ck with one of your hox genes, you're going to be missing things.
Originally posted by Nellinator
We're talking genetic mutation right? If not my bad. If we are, then it isn't the cause of deformity in frogs, just the parasites. But yah, pollution is apart of what is making the parasites more common and the frogs' immunity lower.
Maybe this is the link. However, I thought the process was more direct.
I do know pollution is directly affecting fertility.
Originally posted by Alliance
Darwin had no real mechanism for Natural selection. He didn't know what genes were, didn't even think about evolution as the distribution of gene frequencies, didn't think about a species as an interbreeding population. Didn't really calculate the environment in to the equation either.
Gotcha.
So yeah he had the concept and the antedotal proof without a scientific explanation of the phenomenon.