Did god creat mule? or man did?
Was it from male donkey + female horse or male horse + female donkey, or both?
Was it from male donkey + female horse or male horse + female donkey, or both?
Was a pair of mules on Noah's Ark?
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coolsoldier
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Whether God created the mule or not, it was certainly not man. The mule seems to be one of those instances where nature is too complex for our classification systems.
A succesful hybrid, such as mule, shows that horse and donkey are closely related. Evolution explains that they both have a common ancestor. How does Creation explain that? Why mules can't have offspring? Are they the work of devil?
Well ....
Are we accepting, then, that there is no scientific answer?
I found an abstract with the simple piece of information I wanted: "Comparative Testis Morphometry and Seminiferous Epithelium Cycle Length in Donkeys and Mules"
Note: I have to remember to let Google do the work for me. At one point I had "mule reproduction -deer -clone" for my search term and then I just though, "Drokk it!" and entered "where do mules come from". Sometimes I amaze myself by forgetting the simple route.
Are we accepting, then, that there is no scientific answer?
I found an abstract with the simple piece of information I wanted: "Comparative Testis Morphometry and Seminiferous Epithelium Cycle Length in Donkeys and Mules"
Or I can just point y'all to "Fertility in Mules", or to the BBC article that page offers, Morocco's miracle mule confirmed" ... anything's possible.
Since there's no actual organization to this post, I'll stop now.
Note: I have to remember to let Google do the work for me. At one point I had "mule reproduction -deer -clone" for my search term and then I just though, "Drokk it!" and entered "where do mules come from". Sometimes I amaze myself by forgetting the simple route.
Well ... you know how it goes ....
Without subtracting "deer" from the results, I came up with a mass of links on mule deer. And then I came up with a mass of links on the cloned mule in Idaho.
And then ....
I mean, I shouldn't have had to rely on "comparative testis morphometry" at that point ....
Without subtracting "deer" from the results, I came up with a mass of links on mule deer. And then I came up with a mass of links on the cloned mule in Idaho.
And then ....
I mean, I shouldn't have had to rely on "comparative testis morphometry" at that point ....