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rine mam mals, the ev o lu tion ist sce - In short, ma rine mam mals all re -
nar io is al so con tra dict ed by mo lec u - fute the im ag i nary fam i ly tree in
lar bi ol o gy's find ings. which ev o lu tion ists seek to lo cate
The clas sic ev o lu tion ist sce nar io them.
hy poth e siz es that the two ma jor
whale groups, in or der words
toothed whales (Odontoceti) and ba - ORIGIN OF THE WINGS
leen whales (Mysticeti), evolved How could the im mac u late struc -
from a com mon an ces tor. However, ture of wings have emerged as the
Michel C. Milinkovitch of Brussels re sult of con sec u tive ran dom mu ta -
University op posed this view with a tions? That ques tion is one that ev o -
new the o ry, em pha siz ing that that lu tion ists are un a ble to an swer. They
hy poth e sis, con struct ed on an a tom i - are to tal ly un a ble to ex plain how a
cal sim i lar i ties, and was in val i dat ed rep tile's front legs could have turned
by mo lec u lar dis cov er ies: in to a flaw less wings as the re sult of
Evolutionary re la tion ships among the suc ces sive de fects (mu ta tions) aris -
ma jor groups of ce ta ce ans is more ing in its genes.
prob lem at ic since mor pho log i cal and The Turkish ev o lu tion ist and sci -
mo lec u lar anal y ses reach very dif fer ent en tist Engin Korur de scribes the im -
con clu sions. Indeed, based on the con -
pos si bil i ty of wings evolv ing:
ven tion al in ter pre ta tion of the mor -
The com mon fea ture of eyes and wings
pho log i cal and be hav ior al da ta set, the
is that they can on ly ful fill their tasks
ech o lo cat ing toothed whales (about 67
in the event that they are ful ly formed.
spe cies) and the fil ter-feed ing ba leen
To put it an oth er way, one can not see
whales (10 spe cies) are con sid ered as
with a de fi cient eye, nor fly with half a
two dis tinct mon o phy let ic groups . . .
wing. How these or gans came in to be -
On the oth er hand, phy lo ge net ic anal -
ing has re mained as one of the se crets
y sis of DNA... and ami no ac id. . . se -
of na ture that has not yet been un rav -
quen ces con tra dict this long-ac cept ed
eled. 160
tax o nom ic di vi sion. One group of
toothed whales, the sperm whales, ap -
pears to be more close ly re lat ed to the
mor pho log i cal ly high ly di ver gent ba -
leen whales than to oth er odon to ce -
tes. 159

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