Strong evidence that topics can go off the rails

[John_Harshman]

@Michael_Okoko

So the mutational degradation of the GULO gene in the great apes (including us), which has terminated the lives of millions of people, is purposeful design? What’s the purpose of giving us the GULO pseudogene?

This isn’t just the great apes. It’s all haplorrhines. And of course when the degradation happened it wasn’t deleterious, since the monkey it happened in got plenty of dietary vitamin C. It’s only when humans started eating diets poor in vitamin C that there was any problem. Bill will never understand any of that, though.