That Jellyfish Hold The Key To Immortality, With DUPLICATE Genes, Does NOT Make Evolutionary Sense.

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by Anura Guruge
on August 30, 2022

Click to ENLARGE & read here. Link to U.K. ‘Daily Mail’ original.

I will readily admit that I am not an out-an-out expert on evolution. But, I have done a fair amount of reading on the subject & am pretty sure I have a fairly decent grasp of the basics. But, I could be wrong in this instance. This does NOT make sense to me.

Jellyfish, of course, had to evolve from a chain of other organisms before it. So, somewhere along the line one or more of these ‘accidently’ got into DUPLICATE gene production. Yep. I can buy that. So, we end up with jellyfish with duplicate genes.

But, are there also other creatures with duplicate genes?

I get the feeling that we do NOT know. I would like to think that there has to be … there should be. Why would such a LIFE SAVING trait only get transmuted to one creature, viz., jellyfish. So, that is my first dilemma. I would be much more comfortable if we had more creatures with similar duplication of their genes.

Then, the real crux. Why hasn’t the jellyfish evolved, further?

If duplicate genes are such a WONDERFUL trait how come we didn’t get them. How come they didn’t go further beyond jellyfish.

That is what bothers I. Maybe you can help me. IF I ever get the time I plan to look into this further.

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