Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”
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Re: Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”
#2So us smokers are more highly evolved? /s
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#3I wonder if drinking does the same?
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#4So us smokers are more highly evolved? /s
Evolution doesn't have a high or low state, or a linear progression. It's a natural process that is random and responsive to environment changes, not progressing towards an ideal.
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#5Does anyone know the baseline rate for mutations for a non-smoker?
Edit: Corrected autocorrect
Re: Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”
#6So us smokers are more highly evolved? /s
Evolution doesn't have a high or low state, or a linear progression. It's a natural process that is random and responsive to environment changes, not progressing towards an ideal.
If mutation is the engine of evolution, an increase in mutation should mean an increase in the speed of evolution. Obviously not on the scales we're talking about here, but the premise doesn't seem too unsound, external pressures being equal.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Evolution doesn't have a high or low state, or a linear progression. It's a natural process that is random and responsive to environment changes, not progressing towards an ideal.
If mutation is the engine of evolution, an increase in mutation should mean an increase in the speed of evolution. Obviously not on the scales we're talking about here, but the premise doesn't seem too unsound, external pressures being equal.
Mutations can be beneficial, benign, or harmful. Smoking obviously only really creates the latter two.
Re: Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Evolution doesn't have a high or low state, or a linear progression. It's a natural process that is random and responsive to environment changes, not progressing towards an ideal.
If mutation is the engine of evolution, an increase in mutation should mean an increase in the speed of evolution. Obviously not on the scales we're talking about here, but the premise doesn't seem too unsound, external pressures being equal.
sure stand in some radiation then and we'll watch you become evolved
Re: Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”
#9How addictive is tobacco/smoking as compared to Opiates/Heroin?
Re: Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”
#10Does anyone know the baseline rate for mutations for a non-smoker? Edit: Corrected autocorrect
If you meant nonsmoker then you asked the most relevant metric in my opinion.