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volutionists suggest a so-called evolutionary relationship between
living things on the basis of certain genetic or morphological sim-
ilarities between them. However, research in recent years has
shown that genetic and morphological studies do not represent ev-
idence for the claim that there is an evolutionary relationship between liv-
ing species.
Same Genes, Different Appearance:
One of the latest studies in this area was carried out by the US
National Science Foundation. The research, led by the evolutionary biolo-
gist Blair Hedges from Penn State University, compared the genes of
aquatic birds. It emerged from this study that birds claimed to be mem-
bers of the same family actually bore no similarity to one another at all
from the genetic point of view. The study summarized its conclusions in
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