Posted by Kindred on March 22, 1999 at 17:29:53 {MW2MQmqgaOes6}:
In Reply to: **Try this one, J.H.,5GJW,et.al. posted by ros on March 21, 1999 at 17:53:44:
Believe it or not, there are pseudogenes which are not traceable to retroviruses in origin. There are several which are copy mutations and nearly identical to other genes but with one or 2 basepair differences that render them
nonfunctional. If you didn't know about these cases and only knew of the ones you mentioned then I could see your point, which would have been 100% valid. So us and chimps can get the same retroviruses integrated into our genomes, so
what?
Again, though, the existence of the other type of pseudogenes argues strongly for descent with modification of the genetic code....or evolution.