Marine worm infects trunk of Darwin's tree; to be felled soon
MARINE WORM -- Sequencing of Marine Worm Kills Common Ancestor of Man and Insects:
As previously on Real Science Radio, falsifying the general expectations of neo-Darwinism, a typical roundworm, C. elegans, and a human have about the same number of genes, 19,000 as compared to 20,500. And further, also as on RSR, molecular biology has removed from its perch the long-alleged common ancestor of insects and humans, the marine worm acoelomorphs. According to LiveScience, "the missing link has gone missing". For as reported in the Jan/Feb 2011 Creation Matters:
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Nature 2-9-11marine worms are more closely related to humans than are mollusks and insects-
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Acoelomorpha Flatworm formerly known as common man-bug ancestor
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Nature 2-9-11- Evolution: A can of worms.
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"the missing link has gone missing" Dept. of Genetics & Evolution's Max Telford, Univ. College, London
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evolutionists "alarmed" with "vehemence" - Nature magazine
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shows how important these worm props were to the evolutionary story-telling
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"the most politically fraught paper I've ever written" -Genetic researcher Max Telford. Political? Exactly!
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For more about the wonderful developments from genetic science, see Real Science Radio's annual tradition, the List of Genomes that Just Don't Fit, and evolutionist Jerry Coyne's spat with RSR.