Posted: Aug 12, 2011 5:26 am
GenesForLife wrote:Darwinsbulldog wrote:Genes for life wrote:-Sure, but once you stop birth and death; organismal evolution will stop. Somatic evolution will require the eradication of life itself. Good point well made, DB.
And of course, a few cancers are heritable!Ergo, organismal evolution will still continue in a few cases.
If there is no birth, nothing is inherited
You are forgetting lateral gene transfer and lateral cell transfer. Think Tasmanian Devil [cancer by lateral cell transfer] , and Homing Endonuclease Genes [HEG's]