Let's say I have an ant farm that I started say 10 years ago.
Let's say I applied radiation and/or other factors to cause the ant farm to evolve at an accelerated pace. (Assuming I developed the technology to do this)
This evolution turned 6 legged 1/8th inch black ants into 8 legged 1 inch green spiders and this evolution took 10 years.
Lets also say that I had a preservative in the soil so that the bodies of the animals would not decompose.
What would I find in the soil when I dug it up at the end of the decade?
2006-07-26 09:38:27 · 9 answers · asked by Salami and Orange Juice 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Ok, point taken about the queen, calling the end creatures spiders - just ignore my failings in entomology and play along please...
2006-07-26 10:13:15 · update #1
Since you accelerated their growth in ten years, so you evolved them as they grew from one generation to the next so the parent ants would be in the soil, but their exoskeletons, and previous generations of your creatures, the spiders, ants in transformation, and ants in various stages of transformation, if your spiders just became in the tenth year, if they existed before that, then them too.
2006-07-26 09:56:27 · answer #1 · answered by t_nguyen62791 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Since you only present the beginning and end, the middle is up to the "fossil record" of carcasses that were left. Who knows how and why they ended up as 8 legged 1 inch green spiders because evolution and mutation deal with the changes in the environment which involves the use of the resources of food and whatnot that keeps the bugs alive and able to reproduce. I would suspect that you would end up with more than just the one type of creature in the end though because some would persist with eating and replicating the same way the ants did and others would start chowing down on the carcasses because they are concievably a food source and hanging around for an inordinately long amount of time.
If food sources are limited you may also find an arms race between slight modification of the same type of bug, but this depends on the size of the colony.
Simply put, there isn't enough information to answer your question.
2006-07-26 17:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by One & only bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would find a complete fossil record. Would even your perfect fossil record show continuous change from the beginning to end? Not very steady, most likely. For instance, don't expect to see any 7-legged ants in your record.
If only 2 phenotypes were found in your complete fossil record -- the initial, and the ultimate -- it would not be evidence for creation. Was that what you were getting at?
NB. Computer evolution also leaves a complete fossil record, so the rate of change can now be quantified, and the question of how regular or zagged a course of evolution is has become an empirical matter. I recommend using an artificial world -- no more contrived than your hypothetical antfarm...
2006-07-26 13:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by Rob 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 01:21:04 · answer #4 · answered by eisenhauer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black ants and green spiders. You point is????
2006-07-26 09:45:11 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ants and spiders are different species (Hymenoptera--ants; Araneae--Spiders). That's not evolution, that's metamorphism.
2006-07-26 09:46:54 · answer #6 · answered by m137pay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing, without decomposition, the soil would not survive. Not to mention what the radiation would do to it.
2006-07-26 09:42:37 · answer #7 · answered by bluejeanrose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot of dead ants and spiders
2006-07-26 09:42:37 · answer #8 · answered by Studhandler 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You affirm the consequent; what is your point?
2006-07-26 09:42:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋