Re: Aliens on Earth
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:42 am
jimslip wrote:
> OK so where are all the mistakes that nature made on the way?
> Let's not just keep it to our species, what about mistakes made
> during the eveolution of the millions of other species?
It's a big subject Jim, so let's start with humans first of all and take things one step at a time. You said OK so where are all the mistakes that nature made on the way?
In humans there are many mistakes made by nature on the way, these being generally known as genetic disorders. Here are some of them: Hemophilia, Huntington's disease, Colour blindness, Down syndrome, Sickle cell anemia, Cystic fibrosis, Klinefelter's syndrome, Coeliac disease, XYY sundrome, Crohn's disease, Crouzon syndrome, Familial hypercholesterolemia, Polycystic kidney disease, Neurofibromatosis, Hereditary spherocytosis, Marfan syndrome, Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency, Tay-Sachs disease, Phenylketonuria, Mucopolysaccharidoses, Glycogen storage disease, Galactosemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Angelman syndrome, Canavan disease, Charcot?Marie disease, Achondrogenesis, Achondroplasia, Bloom sundrome, Cockayne syndrome, Gaucher disease, Coffin-Lowry syndrome, Collagenopathy, Friedreich's ataxia, Hereditary coproporphyria, Kniest dysplasia, Menkes disease, Homocystinuria, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, Pfeiffer syndrome, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, von Hippel-Lindau disease, Cri du chat, Wilson disease, Haemochromatosis, Phenylketonuria, Prader?Willi syndrome, Turner syndrome, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, Alexander disease, Usher sundrome, Crouzonodermoskeletal syndrome, Ehlers?Danlos syndrome, Familial dysautonomia, Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, Jackson-Weiss syndrome, Xeroderma pigmentosum, Krabbe disease.
If you were lucky you got a good set of genes which didn't include any of nature's genetic errors, such as those listed above. That probably includes you Jim, if you're still asking where are all the mistakes are? But if you were unlucky you inherited a genetic mistake from one of your parents and therefore suffer from a genetic disorder, in which case you'll be all too well aware of the kind of mistakes made by nature along the way.
> OK so where are all the mistakes that nature made on the way?
> Let's not just keep it to our species, what about mistakes made
> during the eveolution of the millions of other species?
It's a big subject Jim, so let's start with humans first of all and take things one step at a time. You said OK so where are all the mistakes that nature made on the way?
In humans there are many mistakes made by nature on the way, these being generally known as genetic disorders. Here are some of them: Hemophilia, Huntington's disease, Colour blindness, Down syndrome, Sickle cell anemia, Cystic fibrosis, Klinefelter's syndrome, Coeliac disease, XYY sundrome, Crohn's disease, Crouzon syndrome, Familial hypercholesterolemia, Polycystic kidney disease, Neurofibromatosis, Hereditary spherocytosis, Marfan syndrome, Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency, Tay-Sachs disease, Phenylketonuria, Mucopolysaccharidoses, Glycogen storage disease, Galactosemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Angelman syndrome, Canavan disease, Charcot?Marie disease, Achondrogenesis, Achondroplasia, Bloom sundrome, Cockayne syndrome, Gaucher disease, Coffin-Lowry syndrome, Collagenopathy, Friedreich's ataxia, Hereditary coproporphyria, Kniest dysplasia, Menkes disease, Homocystinuria, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, Pfeiffer syndrome, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, von Hippel-Lindau disease, Cri du chat, Wilson disease, Haemochromatosis, Phenylketonuria, Prader?Willi syndrome, Turner syndrome, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, Alexander disease, Usher sundrome, Crouzonodermoskeletal syndrome, Ehlers?Danlos syndrome, Familial dysautonomia, Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, Jackson-Weiss syndrome, Xeroderma pigmentosum, Krabbe disease.
If you were lucky you got a good set of genes which didn't include any of nature's genetic errors, such as those listed above. That probably includes you Jim, if you're still asking where are all the mistakes are? But if you were unlucky you inherited a genetic mistake from one of your parents and therefore suffer from a genetic disorder, in which case you'll be all too well aware of the kind of mistakes made by nature along the way.