Recent content by spuriousmonkey

A (stem) cell has the potential to give rise to all cell lineages.

I think they call these 'things' observations.

funny...nice-paying jobs in science... HAHAHAHA. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I'm 34, make 1300 euro a month. Have no insurance, no pension, no car, no home (just a single room). Yeah. I am in science for money. It is obvious. I only publish on evolution because I am afraid to lose my...

The oldest person currently in the world is only 114 or so. These people however really tend to look like they are 114. And that is with all this supposedly wonderful science in age research. Is it really reasonable to assume we can increase the timespan of a human life? Nothing much has...

Fossil record homology genetic relationships between species observed speciation events etc etc what do you mean by no support? Did you know that there is not a single creationist paper in a peer reviewed scientific journal? Do you know why? (the answer is not: conspiracy)

This is not really a criticism, but merely a remark: I'm not a physicist, but isn't the current idea that gravity actually doesn't exist, but is just a result of curvature of spacetime? Gravity is therefore not a fact, but a theory, and in this case a wrong theory. That the apple falls is also...

I am now wondering if the reverse could be also true. Could the actions of the older unreproductive generation have a negative effect on the reproductive success of the younger generation, And could this effect be subject to natural selection? (I don't have any answers.)

Natural selection apparently can't weed out anything that shows past the reproductive stage anyway, so don't worry about it.

Immunesystems work a lot with chance. I wonder if you can call most weak (although some are), they are mostely unlucky. You cannot predict what kind of immune system will be required to be fit in the future. Pathogens, viruses etc evolve and change constantly. In a way we are preparing...

for funny gene names see this site: http://tinman.vetmed.helsinki.fi/

Evolution does occur after each generation. Each product of a single successful reproduction is another intermediary state on the evolutionary 'bush' (no, I don't have a nobel prize)

Why don't you give us a better model then. And on a sidenote (I can smell a creationist here) creationism has been discarded as a model a 150 years ago. And no, it is not coming back.

Or the percentage of water in your brain. (read previous posts)

because it is too long to be in a loop?

No I don't. And do you have a point? Should we count your brain cells to assess which percentage of your skull is taken up by the brain?