dvunkannon
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/release....422.htm
Grasshopper Mice Are Numb to the Pain of the Bark Scorpion Sting
"Incredibly, there is one amino acid substitution that can totally alter the behavior of the toxin and block the channel," said Zakon.
Sounds like a beneficial, functional mutation to me. The mice couldn't pursue their lifestyle of eating scorpions without it.
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I’m referring to evolution, not changes in allele frequencies. - Cornelius Hunter
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