four pincered crab - Page 2

Princess Ivy · 08-05-2006, 11:06 PM

so we would therefore need to study her offspring. nice point there (pardon the pun)

steve12553 · 08-06-2006, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Princess Ivy

so we would therefore need to study her offspring. nice point there (pardon the pun)

Yeah, THe crab could be a mutant but the information in the article doesn't indicate the anything has been determined or even studied.

Princess Ivy · 08-07-2006, 10:41 AM

i suppose we could google it further?

steve12553 · 08-08-2006, 10:39 AM

Might be worth a try although, there may not be any more information than what was in the article.

04-16-2007, 01:54 AM

I wonder how many other things he killed with those, since he had double the hands. :P

Pretty cool if you ask me, I wonder if he'll be cooked.

07-16-2007, 04:26 PM

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Mutation is following along the lines of something normally caused by genetics but deviating in an individual. This crab may be doing something that all crabs can do but normally don't. If you or I grow an extra hand that would be a mutation because we don't have the ability to grow a hand once we lost one. Our genes won't let us. The crab has the ability to grow a replacement claw but grew it when it hadn't lost one. That seems to me to merely be a misfire, like a dog shedding in the winter.

A frame shift error in DNA replication, like this, is a mutation. We are probably already dealing with some mutations in humans that no one can see or that are being diagnosed, like Autism, as illnesses or disabilities.

If the frame shift error continues and replicates itself in a new generation on a regular basis, it becomes a characteristic of a new species.