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To: Fatalis
No, natural selection is currently taking place in the snake population of Australia.

Not true. Evolution is simply the change in allele frequencies from one generation to the next. Obviously, natural selection is guiding the change, which is evolution by definition!

19 posted on 12/12/2004 8:18:03 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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To: GreenFreeper
Evolution is simply the change in allele frequencies from one generation to the next. Obviously, natural selection is guiding the change, which is evolution by definition!

That's a mighty low bar. Dog breeds are examples of evolution by that definition.

Natural selection is a component of evolution, not a synonym for it.

20 posted on 12/12/2004 8:24:44 AM PST by Fatalis
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