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To: lasereye
Mutations are quick but most mutations are detrimental.
Natural selection takes more time.
Adaptation (better use of what you already have) can also be a matter of one or a few generation.
Evolution, developing a completely new trait, takes MUCH longer. It's rarely as simple as a single mutation.

35 posted on 10/01/2015 7:34:45 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: BitWielder1

>Evolution, developing a completely new trait, takes MUCH longer. It’s rarely as simple as a single mutation.<

And cannot be shown in any fossil record


38 posted on 10/01/2015 7:40:55 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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