This was one of my problems when asked to produce evidence. Over the years we hear and read about these things and see them on TV, but try to find them - impossible.
One thing that is easy enough to find is the relatively short period of geological time it takes for changes to take place, for example, flight.
I've long held an idea there is more to genetic change than just the accepted Darwinian mutation. There had to be something with it to trigger such changes.
Well it's my understanding (unfortunately I can't quote anything on it either though). That most allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to certain stimuli in utero that cause leukocytes to recognize harmless protein complexes as foreign bodies and trigger the immune system to react in such a way. Meaning that most (although not all) are not technically programmed by the child's genetics. Social interactions are also notoriously hard to define and scientists continually struggle to determine what behaviors are genetic and what are learnt (although it's worth noting that adaptation can be behavioral as well as genetic).
Although I would add the flight took many thousands of years to evolve in both birds and bats. Firstly the need for wings persists which in itself is a large morphological change requiring functionality to remain and secondly a reduction in bone mass was necessary as well as the restructure of many muscle groups. Gliding can occur on a relatively shorter time scale but flight took quite a long time.
Yes Brysing, but they took on a different texture and colour to cope with it and a different shedding pattern, (as I understand it) albeit chosen for the purpose of being able to absorb the London air.
Thus link explains about children being born with aids and then overcoming all disease because they have an additional for codons turned on. Giving them 24 in place of 20.
Are you trying to say people can have 24 amino acids instead of 20? Codens simply code for amino acids. Also your link just brought me up to a main forum of that site. It did not bring me to any thread. If you can, please explain your post further and add a better link so I can better understand were your viewpoint is.
A codon is not a single pair of nucleotides but three. It can be considered the means of translation between mRNA and proteins however normal humans do not possess only 20 but 64. What I assume is actually meant by the word codon in this example is the proteins used during synthesis. I took the liberty of tracking my way back through google to the original article (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199503303321301#t=articleDiscussion).
What this actually states is that the child develops the p24 antigen (a protein chain 24 bases long) that immunises them against the strain of HIV that they are infected with in birth. This is theorized to develop during the womb as a result to low dose exposure to HIV-1. Simply put this is because in utero we express many thousands of such antibodies which are removed one by one unless they are used before birth. From what I can gather though claims of immunity have been greatly exaggerated and the children of such circumstances gain boosted immunity to HIV (for an unknown period of time, it may be life or it may be only a few months/years) but do not gain immunity to any other additional diseases.
