To: mlc9852
A specie becoming less adapted to it's environment (and not because the environment itself is changing faster than it can keep up).
32 posted on
05/08/2006 1:50:11 PM PDT by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: Sofa King
But I wanted an actual example of that happening if you know of any.
35 posted on
05/08/2006 1:51:46 PM PDT by
mlc9852
To: Sofa King
A specie becoming less adapted to it's environment (and not because the environment itself is changing faster than it can keep up).Does the GOP count?
To: Sofa King
Which is NOT happening here.
The environment is changing, with the addition of human-introduced food sources. The specialization of the birds toward different food sources is not so important anymore, thus the traits which HAD been selected for no longer are causing the divergence of the two beak types. This was a single species to begin with; it hadn't diverged as yet into two distinct species.
40 posted on
05/08/2006 1:59:38 PM PDT by
2nsdammit
(By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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