Comments on: Great Minds Think Alike: Bats & Dolphins Evolved Same Gene For Echolocation http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/26/great-minds-think-alike-bats-dolphins-evolved-same-gene-for-echolocation/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Adaline Olives http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/26/great-minds-think-alike-bats-dolphins-evolved-same-gene-for-echolocation/#comment-15625 Adaline Olives Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:04:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9504#comment-15625 The subsequent time I read a weblog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I imply, I know it was my option to learn, but I actually thought youd have something attention-grabbing to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you can repair if you werent too busy in search of attention. The subsequent time I read a weblog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I imply, I know it was my option to learn, but I actually thought youd have something attention-grabbing to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you can repair if you werent too busy in search of attention.

]]> By: AJ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/26/great-minds-think-alike-bats-dolphins-evolved-same-gene-for-echolocation/#comment-15624 AJ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:14:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9504#comment-15624 wow is it me or would this be damn near impossible? i could understand similar genes in related organisms, but the last common ancestor of bats and dolphins wouldve been...the LCA of almost all mammals, so the gap is huge. but then again, prestin can probably be made only one way, so maybe its not surprising at all; if u want to use echolocation, prestin may be the only way to do it. if thats the case then we should expect to see prestin in all echolocation using animals. wow is it me or would this be damn near impossible? i could understand similar genes in related organisms, but the last common ancestor of bats and dolphins wouldve been…the LCA of almost all mammals, so the gap is huge.

but then again, prestin can probably be made only one way, so maybe its not surprising at all; if u want to use echolocation, prestin may be the only way to do it. if thats the case then we should expect to see prestin in all echolocation using animals.

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