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Old May 23rd, 2013, 02:22 PM   #1
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Default Why Red Devils and Midas Cichlids are Sill The Same Species

The human genome is 60% the same as a banana. Only 2% of our DNA is in genes, the rest is so called junk DNA, which doesn't code for any traits, but may code for more subtle things like how the active DNA is made. We share 98% of our DNA with a Chimpanzee. Europeans also share 1-3% of the active DNA with Neanderthals, and the Island Peoples of Oceania share up to 5% with a newly disovered extinct subspecies called Devisonian hominids. In both cases this is much higher than the amount the rest of humans share with Subsaharan Africans.

Marta Barluenga, one of our foremost fish geneticists and her students tested various genetic loci in Amphilophine cichlids and concluded that Midas Cichlids and Red Devils in Lake Nicaragua share more genetic material than Midas Cichlids in Lake Nicaragua do with the ones in Lake Managua. Yet they say interbreeding Red Devils and Midas in Nicaraguaare different species. And they don't even know what most of the small differences code for, if anything. That is why i've told the rabid fish geneticists who would reclassify all Amphilophine cichlid fish they find 2 cents worth of genetic difference in as different species to lighten up. It will be very embarrassing when we find that all their junk DNA shows they have recent common ancestors and are specious species at best. They won't even go for 2 different subspecies, much less races. It just ain't so. Until we decipher the entire DNA sequences and coding loci for all animals, it's a guessing game. Phylogenetic fish DNA people are still 60% bananas.
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