Re: failure


"Ken Smith" <kensmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <4342318e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> David Brown <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> >are. DNA, along with the rest of the mechanisms of life, are a great
> >deal more complicated, and we have only a basic understanding of them.
> >But DNA is only one implementation of evolution (albeit the only one we
> >have so far found in nature - and almost certainly the only one on this
> >planet).
>
> I think the "prion diseases" provides an example of evolution not
> involving DNA or RNA.

Do prions evolve? Or are they simply a constant-formula molecular poison?


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