The wolves are exposed to cancer-causing radiation as they roam the wastelands of the abandoned city - with researchers finding part of their genetic information seems resilient to increased risk of the disease.
Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
Two trait variations exist. The environment changes. One variation dies off. The other lives on to procreate. That’s the definition of evolution.
Evolution can be extremely fast, if something happens that causes 95% of a population to die, and the only individuals surviving are unaffected… bam, the population adapted.
Evolution isn’t “slow change over time“. It’s surviving (or procreating) when others didn’t.
it just so happens that until man, most changes in the environment occur gradually.
It’s quite absurd to suggest this is the reason as if the scientists involved in the study would completely overlook the most basic of ideas. It’s a bit of a Dunning Kruger and hubris love child.
Not to mention that the—very short—article even explains the mechanism which refutes your idea.
There is nothing in the article that refutes this, what are you talking about? They explain how they track them, that they get too much radiation and that genetic study shows they have genes to resist damage from this radiation - exactly what would be expected with evolution and of course the process by which this happens is that the non cancer resistant wolves got cancer and died young, it’s not even slightly controversial (unless you’re a creationist)
Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
The wolves with the trait are the ones that live on to procreate. The ones without the trait died off.
From an evolutionary point of view, the ones that didn’t have a resistance to cancer, died.
Died too quickly to procreate, specifically.
And yet I’m still here… Arwoooooo~
Yep. This isn’t really oniony. It’s just evolution at work. Something that happens every day.
Yeah !nottheonion is supposed to be absurdist news that sounds completely made up but is real.
This post should have been moderated out.
“Radiation wolves evolved resistance to cancer” doesn’t sound made up to you?
The vast majority of people are totally clueless
let me introduce you to the inclusive or community …
To tell the truth, there’s also a lot of radiations at work.
It’s still external pressure on the species.
Evolution isn’t nearly this fast. It’s not evolution.
Two trait variations exist. The environment changes. One variation dies off. The other lives on to procreate. That’s the definition of evolution.
Evolution can be extremely fast, if something happens that causes 95% of a population to die, and the only individuals surviving are unaffected… bam, the population adapted.
Evolution isn’t “slow change over time“. It’s surviving (or procreating) when others didn’t.
it just so happens that until man, most changes in the environment occur gradually.
More like damnthatsinterresting
Did they die or were they never born?
Both? Died before producing offspring.
Never born, as in the genetic combination wasn’t realized.
It’s quite absurd to suggest this is the reason as if the scientists involved in the study would completely overlook the most basic of ideas. It’s a bit of a Dunning Kruger and hubris love child.
Not to mention that the—very short—article even explains the mechanism which refutes your idea.
There is nothing in the article that refutes this, what are you talking about? They explain how they track them, that they get too much radiation and that genetic study shows they have genes to resist damage from this radiation - exactly what would be expected with evolution and of course the process by which this happens is that the non cancer resistant wolves got cancer and died young, it’s not even slightly controversial (unless you’re a creationist)
But that’s what did happen.
The wolves with the trait are the ones that live on to procreate. The ones without the trait died off.