Posted on 11/29/2015 7:27:04 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
HORSEFEATHERS!
Interesting. They have some facial similarities to donkeys and buffalo IMO
So, this is how Russia squanders money on “studies” like we did in the study “Why so many lesbians are fat.”
Considering horses spend 16 hours a day out of 24 with their head down eating, this is amazing. My guess would be that they enjoy no competition for the sources of food they have adapted to. Also horses will dehydrate to death even in a snow pack without a source of running water to drink from. These horses have obviously overcome that trait as well.
“’This is truly amazing as it implies that all traits now seen in Yakutian horses are the product of very fast adaptive processes, taking place in about 800 years,’ “
No. This is merely proof that someone purposefully and very deliberately bred the horses over generations to increase their chances of surviving the cold.
That’s much more impressive than imaginary “fast adaptive processes”.
Third pic: I know a Tauntan when I see one.
That’s some fast adapters.
But there are other examples of very quick (in evolutionary terms) changes, even in people. For example, people in Siberia have very, very rich and thick blood, as do people in Bolivia (mountainous). The people in Bolivia’s mountainous regions are also very barrel-chested and actually look different in shape than other nearby peoples.
“So, this is how Russia squanders money on “studies” like we did in the study “Why so many lesbians are fat.”
I think that this is much more interesting.
What an inane, blithering crock! So they “evolved” to where they could srvive the cold over 800 years, did they? And how, may I ask, did the original arrivals from Mongolia survive the cold for the first 500 years or so.
Answer: God designed the original equine progenitors with the genetic potential to withstand cold when it is encountered; as well as withstanding heat, as Arabian horses do.
These fraudulent faux scientists should be laughed out of intelligent circles.
“Fascinating new scientific research has found that their seemingly built-in protection against extreme Arctic conditions is a recent phenomenon, at least by the normal tortoise-paced standards of evolution.”
Adaptation is not evolution.
Just how warm do you think Mongolia is?
Average temperatures over most of the country are below freezing from November through March and are about freezing in April and October. January and February averages of -20° C are common, with winter nights of -40° C occurring most years. Summer extremes reach as high as 38° C in the southern Gobi region and 33° C in Ulaanbaatar. More than half the country is covered by permafrost, which makes construction, road building, and mining difficult. All rivers and freshwater lakes freeze over in the winter, and smaller streams commonly freeze to the bottom. Ulaanbaatar lies at 1,351 meters above sea level in the valley of the Tuul Gol, a river. Located in the relatively well-watered north, it receives an annual average of 31 centimeters of precipitation, almost all of which falls in July and in August. Ulaanbaatar has an average annual temperature of -2.9°C and a frost-free period extending on the average from mid-June to late August.
www.countrystudies.us/mongolia/34.htm
Bingo! Don’t be so impudent in rejecting the common evolutionary fairy tale, you could get in trouble for that.
:-)
Thanks martin_fierro.
That’s the short neck variety.
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