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I'm evolving faster than you Anonymous
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19726495.000

A LUMBERING reptile has stolen a march on us all. A study shows that New Zealand's tuatara is the fastest-evolving animal known.

The tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, is a "living fossil", virtually unchanged since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, says David Lambert at the University of Auckland. Even for a lizard, the tuatara is slow. It takes 15 years to reach sexual maturity, reproduces only once every two to five years and has a slow metabolism.

However, when Lambert's team analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 650 to 8000-year-old tuatara remains and compared them with those of living tuatara, they found that the reptile is evolving almost 10 times as fast as the average animal. It is accumulating an average of 1.37 substitutions per base pair every million years compared with an average of 0.2 (Trends in Genetics, DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2007.12.002).

Marc Jones at University College London says it's time for a rethink on the tuatara. "This study should prompt us to take a closer look at the 'fossil' animals to see if their anatomy is really as unchanged and stable as generally assumed," he says.
>> Anonymous
They're not really evolving faster if it takes that long to produce the next generation.
>> Anonymous
well guess what motherfucker?
i have thumbs.
>> spiderman !!Q+JluTncCte
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>> Anonymous
They're running in place faster than we're walking.
>> Anonymous
>>230216

Jesus fucking Christ I hope for your sake you aren't a bio major.
>> Anonymous
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>>230225
Just wait, motherfucker.
Three generations from now I will not only have thumbs, but fucking death rays that shoot out of my eyes.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4443960a6009.html

Tuatara finally has sex at age 111.