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must in clude the re quire ment that to as cribe de grees of re lat ed ness
all ami no ac ids be left-hand ed, and among liv ing things, to re veal all the
the fact that ev ery ami no ac id can pos si ble sim i lar i ties and dif fer en ces
on ly be at tached to the oth ers by a of a spe cies or group and set out the
pep tide bond. If we con sid er a 400- sta ges they un der went from their
ami no ac id pro tein, the chan ces of all sup posed an ces tors. (See Phylum,
the ami no ac ids be ing at tached to and Taxonomy.)
one an oth er by pep tide bonds alone By such means, ev o lu tion ists
is 1 in 2399 —a fig ure that can not hope to in di cate the lines of de scent
pos si bly be achieved by ran dom fac - they as sume oc curred among liv ing
tors. things. In ad di tion, based on var i ous
sim i lar i ties in spe cies, they try to
place all liv ing things on cer tain
PHYLOGENY branch es of the ev o lu tion a ry fam i ly
Phylogeny is the term used to de - tree. But this is all based on their pre -
scribe the sup posed ev o lu tion a ry con cep tions. These are all fic ti tious
his to ry of any group of liv ing things. stud ies, de void of any sci en tif ic ev i -
Phylogeny is ev o lu tion ists' at tempts dence.

Can lı gru pları olan fil um ların tam amına yakını, Kamb ri yen dev ri ol a rak bil in en je ol o jik
dön em de, hiç bir söz de ev rim sel at a ya sa hip ol mad an anid en or ta ya çıkmışlardır. Bu,
ev rim te or is ini çür ü ten, yar atılışı des tek ley en ön em li bir del ild ir.