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Reverse Evolution

Dr.Thornton

  • Study to recreate GR traits
  • The GR is in almost every cell in the body and regulates genes controlling the development, metabolism, and immune response.
  • Discovered you can not reverse complex traits

Dust Mites

  • Evolved from free-living parasites

Researchers found they have gone back to their ancestral ways

Bibliography

(Taylor)

Zimmer, Carl. "Can Evolution Run in Reverse? A Study Says It’s a One-Way Street." The New York Times. The New York Times, 28 Sept. 2009. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29evol.html?_r=0>..

Bibliography

(Lauren)

"Reverse Evolution Is Possible: Study." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <

"Why A Turkish Family Walks On All Fours." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <

Bibliography

(Caitlin)

"Family That Walks On All Fours Not A Product Of 'Reverse Evolution'" Io9. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <http://io9.com/family-that-walks-on-all-fours-not-a-product-of-reverse-1606494510>.

"House Dust Mite Study Shows Reverse Evolution Possible." Nature World News RSS. 9 Mar. 2013. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/781/20130309/house-dust-mite-study-shows-reverse-evolution-possible.htm>.

What is Reverse Evolution?

  • When an organism reverts back to its former ancestral traits
  • Opposite of Darwin's theory (going backwards)

Reverse Evolution

Darwin's Theory

Natural Selection

  • Many inheritable variations
  • Must make a lot of babies (chance of difference)
  • Characteristics that influence an individuals survival and reproduction are inherited
  • The one that can adapt better will survive (survival of the fittest)

Louis Dollo

The Law of Irreversibility

Explains the idea of how it is impossible for organisms to revert back to their ancestral phenotypes.

Caitlin, Simran, Taylor, Lauren.

Bibliography

(Simran)

Evans, Sophie. "Turkish Family Walks on All Fours - but Scientists Now Say They Don't Move like Quadrupedal Primates and AREN'T an Example of 'reverse Evolution'" Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 19 July 2014. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698298/Turkish-family-walks-fours-scientists-say-dont-like-four-legged-animals-ARENT-example-reverse-evolution.html>.

"Evolution, Reversed." MIT News. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2011/evolution-reversed-0511>.

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