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From: sabol@Apple.COM (Bryan Sabol)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,talk.origins
Subject: Re: The birds and the beaks
Message-ID: <28483@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 16:02:16 GMT
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In article <3318@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>From article <28434@apple.Apple.COM>, by sabol@Apple.COM (Bryan Sabol):
  >[ ... ]
>>  Without the advantageous 
>> mutations, the population/species would never change, and therefore no 
>> new species would develop at all ....
>
>When you say "mutation", I presume you include mutations due to
>transfer of genetic material by viruses?

	Sure.  A mutation, caused by faulty sequencing of an
individual's own cellular division, or caused by radiation, or by virus,
or whatever.  I wasn't terribly interested in what the source of the
mutation was, only what the result was.  If the virus' transciption
resulted in a adventageous mutation, then the argument remains the same.


bryan sabol
ousted reedie-at-large