I guess Dr. Gauger doesn't understand cancer, which results from the accumulation of mutations over time. It doesn't take 6 million years for a mutation in a DNA binding site to arise! Go to any cancer wing in a hospital. Of course, cancer involves mutations in somatic cells. There are many more of them than sex cells, and sex cell mutations rarely "make it"...meaning the cell dies before conception or their is a miscarriage. Even for mutations that do make it, they may not result in any obvious changes to the individual. So we have to look back into history to see how we've changed.
So take a look. We can even look into our DNA and see that some of our ancestors did the wild thing with Neanderthals.
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