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Genes Cross Species Naturally
libfemme ( 10/10/2003, 01:55:53 )II Peter 3:8Yes, it could happen and does happen in natural evolution. It is what fuels natural evolution. Genetic modification works precisely because it immitates what occurs in nature. What humans do is speed it up.When the SARS virus jumped from civat cats to human beings, that's also an example of "natural evolution". Species change all the time. Changes that are genetic in nature begin to accommulate over time until one branch of offsprings can be so different from another branch that they cannot interbreed anymore. When that happens we say the two branches are two different species.Gold fish and carp are two different species now. But gold fish were "created" as a species when Chinese fishermen interbreed the most orange colored individuals among the usually drab carp. Over hundreds of generations of breeding the most orange or golden colored offspring in each hatch with only other mostly orange or gold colored offspring eventually the fish born were so different from the original carp that we call them now gold fish. The story of how gold fish came to be is well known:"The early history of the cultivation of goldfish is equally unclear but it is generally accepted that by the time of the Sung Dynasty, around 1000 AD, goldfish were being captive bred in China. It was not, however, until around 1500 AD that goldfish first appeared in Japan and they did not find their way into Europe until the seventeenth century. The goldfish was first zoologically classified as Cyprinus auratus in 1758 in a book by Von Linné entitled Systema Naturae."
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