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Mutation: An Imaginary Mechanism 65
These pho to graphs show some of the
dam ag ing ef fects of mu ta tion on the
hu man body.
A proc ess that crip ples in di vid u als or
leaves them ill can not, of course, give
rise to any progress.
ple, if an earth quake were to shake a from mu ta tions, prac ti cal ly all of
high ly or dered struc ture such as a which are harm ful? 65
build ing, there would be a ran dom
All the mu ta tions ob served in hu -
change in the frame work of the build -
man be ings are harm ful. Medical
ing, which, in all prob a bil i ty, would
text books de scribe phys i cal or men -
not be an im prove ment. 64
tal de fects such as mon gol ism,
No ex am ples of ben e fi cial mu ta -
Down Syndrome, al bi nism, dwarf -
tions have ev er been ob served. The
ism and sic kle cell ane mia, or dis eas -
ev o lu tion ist sci en tist Warren
es such as can cer as ex am ples of mu -
Weaver said the fol low ing about a
ta tion. A proc ess that crip ples or
re port pre pared by the Committee
sick ens can not, of course, be any ev -
on Genetic Effects of Atomic
o lu tion a ry mech a nism.
Radiation, set up to ex am ine the mu -
In a sci en tif ic pa per, David
ta tions aris ing as a re sult of nu cle ar
Demick, an American pa thol o gist,
weap ons in the wake of the Second
wrote this to say about mu ta tions:
World War:
Literally thou sands of hu man dis eas es
Many will be puz zled about the state - as so ci at ed with ge net ic mu ta tions have
ment that prac ti cal ly all known mu - been cat a logued in re cent years, with
tant genes are harm ful. For mu ta tions more be ing de scribed con tin u al ly. A
are a nec es sa ry part of the proc ess of re cent ref er ence book of med i cal ge net -
ev o lu tion. How can a good ef fect — ev - ics list ed some 4,500 dif fer ent ge net ic
o lu tion to high er forms of life — re sult dis eas es. Some of the in her it ed syn -
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