"Tim Tyler" wrote in message ...

: anthropomorphic rubbish. Did they hold committee meetings while they did
: this figuring out, or just hold a township meeting?

Such language is common is biology.

Biologists refer to genes as selfish - for example.

They /could/ constantly explain that yes, this is a metaphor - and no,
they
don't mean it literally - but after a little while that gets pretty
tedious.

Mutations that arise in nature tend to be systematically different from
taking genes from one organisms and transferring them into an unrelated
one.

The latter technique is more powerful.

As a consequence of the greater power, there is more scope for things
going
wrong.

except that there are an almost infinite number of mutations arising
naturally all the time, whereas how many gm ones are there?
Inevitably blind chance will throw up more powerful mutations than GM
Jim Webster

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