Premarital Sex

MosbyMarion
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:09:48 +0000

@fairy_dreams: That’s an interesting read, and I’ll have to take a closer look at it sometime. But it doesn’t really answer my question. I would guess (and it is in fact stated for some of the experiments) that the “mutations” do not add new functionality to the creature in most cases. One example that I have studied in a little more detail is the “superbugs” that are found in hospitals. In that case, a freak mutation handicapped the cell’s ability to take in nutrients through it’s cell membrane. This had the useful byproduct of preventing the antibiotic from entering at a rate fast enough to kill the cell. But it is once again a case of complexity being lost, not gained.