2007-01-26 13:54:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
your on a roll keep it up,,,,its interesting to see what they come up with,,,,
God Bless
2007-01-26 14:05:05 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetness 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's been seen in several species. Salt and Pepper moths, in mice, plants and of course the fissile evidence.
Look at the different dog breeds out there. Dog breeders (and other animal breeders) have been unknowingly tapping into the same processes that operate when natural selection alters a species.
Oh and no it doesn't take billions of years for it to happen. Decades can alter an entire species if the conditions are right.
2007-01-26 14:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by Author Unknown 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know what you are doing? You are not researching the EXTRAORDINARY and REVOLUTIONARY facts we have discovered,..... there is A LOT to learn.
All you are doing is grasping at straws in a desperate attempt to make a huge revelation which takes the rug out from under your religion not true in order to fit YOUR world view.
But science doesn't work that way, science changes with the EVIDENCE because that is what it's based on.
You can't change nature, and you can't change the facts my friend,
the simple fact is that there is a BETTER explanation for it all instead of 'some big giant did it'....
and you know it deep down inside.
2007-01-26 14:05:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science. 2006 Jul 14;313(5784):156.
Evolution of character displacement in Darwin's finches.
Grant PR, Grant BR.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA. prgrant@princeton.edu
Competitor species can have evolutionary effects on each other that result in ecological character displacement; that is, divergence in resource-exploiting traits such as jaws and beaks. Nevertheless, the process of character displacement occurring in nature, from the initial encounter of competitors to the evolutionary change in one or more of them, has not previously been investigated. Here we report that a Darwin's finch species (Geospiza fortis) on an undisturbed Galapagos island diverged in beak size from a competitor species (G. magnirostris) 22 years after the competitor's arrival, when they jointly and severely depleted the food supply. The observed evolutionary response to natural selection was the strongest recorded in 33 years of study, and close to the value predicted from the high heritability of beak size. These findings support the role of competition in models of community assembly, speciation, and adaptive radiations.
2007-01-26 13:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by ivorytowerboy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure. Look up munchkin cats. The first ones were in the 40s and then they disappeared until after WWII. They became a new recognized breed only in 1994.
There weren't short legged cats until humans thought they were cute and helped them breed and survive because in the wild it would be a sure ticket to death.
2007-01-26 14:04:57 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe. It's a little too soon to see an dramatic changes or draw any deep conclusions on complex animals.
2007-01-26 14:11:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are not only "pictures" of animals exterior appearance changing but also of genes.
2007-01-26 14:00:40 · answer #7 · answered by Alucard 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep, just look at the different kinds of any animal or plant life on the planet. How many different species there are of dogs or plants.
2007-01-26 13:57:48 · answer #8 · answered by skunkgrease 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No. Don't you get the joke? Remember, it takes billions of years for these changes to occur (wink, wink) that is why you can't prove it.
2007-01-26 14:05:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Moths.
2007-01-26 13:58:39 · answer #10 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Perhaps if you had a 9th grade education, you would have seen such pictures in your biology class.
2007-01-26 13:57:53 · answer #11 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋