Comments on: Interspecies Sex: Evolution’s Hidden Secret?

By: chris

chris — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:35:49 +0000

Hmmm….the article forgot to mention rape, necrophilia and pedophilia. Could it be that these are also important forces in evolution? If not, why not?

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:01:54 +0000

“This is proof of the intricacies that God has created.” lol!

By: Chizelsa

Chizelsa — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:17:00 +0000

This is proof of the intricacies that God has created.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:35:53 +0000

This has been done for a long time it’s called a Mule The mix of a donkey and a horse the key it the offspring cannot reproduce.

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:53:20 +0000

Seems to me that GMO is something quite different. If you take a gene that is present in animal species and put it into a plant species (or vice versa) you have done something that would never have occurred, barring (of course) a mutation that independently introduces that gene into the side that didn’t have it before. It is generally accepted that plants and animals aren’t capable of hybridization naturally…

There’s also the fact that the things we engineer plants for typically follow our narrow short-term interest and are not necessarily the best things for the ecosystems into which these genes will be released sooner or later. Plants go flinging their reproductive bits all over the place (the floozies!!) and it’s simply not realistic to expect that those new genes aren’t going to end up in other species where the effects could be disastrous.