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These genes have lost there protein coding abilities and are riddled with deleterious mutations. Two points to the evolutionary theory contribution. By example. Firstly, all great apes have a vitamin C pseudogene that links humans to all other great apes showing common ancestry. Secondly, this gene is inactive in fruitavores ( humans are common ancestors to fruitavores ) as they eat all the vitamin C they need so this gene became invisible to natural selection and deleterious mutation accumulating in the gene were not selected against as the survival and reproductive success of these organisms was no longer affected by not synthesizing vitamin C.

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