Mutations (DNA) are not random. HbS mutation occurs more frequently in Africans.

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The study gives an explanation to “random” mutations. They are not random.
A known mutation in the hemoglobin protein that protects from malaria, occurs more frequently in Africans than in Europeans.
They checked for de novo mutation rates between them, and Africans simply had more frequently de novo mutations in this gene.
What a surprise…. Our body adapts not in a stupid inefficient way of random mutations but actually collects information to create mutations of interest…..
So much time to figure common sense….

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The study gives an explanation to “random” mutations. They are not random.
A known mutation in the hemoglobin protein that protects from malaria, occurs more frequently in Africans than in Europeans.
They checked for de novo mutation rates between them, and Africans simply had more frequently de novo mutations in this gene.
What a surprise…. Our body adapts not in a stupid inefficient way of random mutations but actually collects information to create mutations of interest…..
So much time to figure common sense….

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thanks for posting. very intersting indeed.

I am not sure though this does prove what it says it proves. What if the mutations just happens more often as a byproduct of another adaption to malaria? like a bucket more likely to "randomly" spill in one direction if there is a dent there due to longtime use. Even if that is a very practical place to have a bucket-leakage maybe it leaks there because the bucket is often tilted in that direction by the hand. Im sure theres faults in my analogy but how could this be seperated from it being a byproduct and not intelligent mutation (as opposed to random)?