Ugly duckling a nod for Evolution?

i think we're all waiting for ed.

i don't know. honestly, i am not science-minded enough to say conclusively, but it certainly would appear to the beginning strains of a possible evolutionary adaption.
[Edited 2/20/07 10:39am]

cborgman said:

i think this is just a case of conjoined twins, one embryo did not separate fully from its twin.

XxAxX said:

PurpleJedi said:

XxAxX said:

i think this is just a case of conjoined twins, one embryo did not separate fully from its twin.

I don't think that you can get twin hatchlings out of one egg.
...but I'll google it just the same...

PurpleJedi said:

LONDON - Webbed feet run in Stumpy's family, but he's the first to have four of them.
A rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he runs on. Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, 95 miles southwest of London, showed the duckling to reporters Saturday.
"It was absolutely bizarre. I was thinking 'he's got too many legs' and I kept counting 'one, two, three, four,'" Janaway said.
Stumpy would probably not survive in the wild, but Janaway, who runs the Warrawee Duck Farm in New Forest, says he is doing well.
"He's eating and surviving so far, and he is running about with those extra legs acting like stabilizers," Janaway said.
The mutation is rare, but cases have been recorded across the world. One duckling named Jake was born in Queensland, Australia, in 2002 with four legs but died soon after.

The addition of limbs is not an ADDITION of genes, it is a mutation. Mutation is change, not addition.


So what was that about evolution not ADDING information?
Sounds to me like this little ducky just added two legs.


Yahoo story with pic: http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...ZUxBPtiBIF

XxAxX said:

Measure in Love
Now the Lord is sayin' to me, "Whitey, Please..."

When I was,
the docor thought at first that I was born with an extra leg.
Turns out,
I was just blessed.

Though,
I'm not if I can be classified as a nod for evolution.

they've beenn doingg stuff like this for deccades with fruift flies. so thehre's a mutatuion. causing the genes that encodde for legggs to get duplicatted, or repplicated elsehwerre...

damnnn tyypos.

HiinEnkelte said:

they've beenn doingg stuff like this for deccades with fruift flies. so thehre's a mutatuion. causing the genes that encodde for legggs to get duplicatted, or repplicated elsehwerre...

damnnn tyypos.

and for the record, I don't think extra legs would be support PRO evolution. just like a loss of leg would not be evidence AGAINST evolution

Duncelot said:

HiinEnkelte said:

they've beenn doingg stuff like this for deccades with fruift flies. so thehre's a mutatuion. causing the genes that encodde for legggs to get duplicatted, or repplicated elsehwerre...

damnnn tyypos.

is it just me or does this post contain much more useful information than your usual ones

Duncelot said: