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Talk:Beneficial mutation
"The Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has a congenital deformation of the elbow, which has enabled him to become cricket's all-time greatest bowler."
I think this is really pushing it. From what I could tell, it's his supple wrist and shoulder that are the key, aside from probably simply being a tremendous athlete. But the sources aren't that great for determining this - WP doesn't even mention it from what I could see, and the two cites in the article here ar a bit "flowery". ħuman
21:49, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
Also, a congenital defect is not evidence of a mutation, it can have other causes. ħuman
21:53, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
- I thought the problem steamed from where he broke his arm a child and it was never reset properly. - User
21:55, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
- Well, I removed it. Damn CPers and their deceitful parodistic vandalism to our beautiful site. ħuman
22:57, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
- Well, I removed it. Damn CPers and their deceitful parodistic vandalism to our beautiful site. ħuman
Bacteria and the like "mutating" resistances are not examples of mutations. See http://www.trueorigin.org/bacteria01.asp or any other site where they understand. 75.185.176.214 (talk) 03:18, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
- Lol, please go back under your bridge, useless person. ħuman
03:38, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
You call him useless but say nothing to refute him... What does that make you? Dr.Mizumi (talk) 19:28, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Here is a link refuting the key argument of your link. http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB102.html Regarding the argument that all beneficial mutations in bacteria come from Horizontal Gene Transfer, search for "Lenski's long-term E. Coli evolution experiment". It's a beautiful long term study of evolution at work (and no Horizontal Gene Transfer involved). 87.152.238.48 (talk) 04:51, 9 January 2015 (UTC)