[DUMBGRUNT]

Incremental evolution?

Can someone explain how many iterations of what duration?

That looks like a near infinity? How does that work, I forgot?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We already knew the Blues were different from all the Norms.

[ClearCase_guy]

I learned a valuable lesson in Kindergarten when — I have no idea why — my teacher told the class that there are no blue animals. I said, “What about the blue whale? Or the Bluebird?”

She just told the class that I was wrong, and we moved on.

The lesson she taught me that day was reinforced by many teachers throughout my educational experience.

[steve8714]

By design. You knew that already, no?

[Red Badger]

Blue Whales?...................

[alexander_busek]

Incremental evolution? Can someone explain how many iterations of what duration? That looks like a near infinity? How does that work, I forgot?

I guess if a random FReeper who earned a B-minus in high school biology and almost flunked trigonometry can't fathom how that works, then it must be inexplicable!

Regards,

[one guy in new jersey]

“evolving optical tricks”

__________

The most intelligent thing ever:Random Chance...or, if you like, Brute Force.

Capable of solving the most vexing problems (provided you’ve got a million or so years to hang around for an answer).

Who would every have thought of that?

So ironic.

[bgill]

Birds of a feather flocking together is racist.

[Nifster]

For the same reasons sunsets aren’t orange and red

[Alas Babylon!]

How's our wavelength?

[dangus]

Funny... I was only yesterday watching how beautiful dragonflies were and commenting to my son, “there should be more blue animals.”

[CtBigPat]

[Vlad0]

Can someone explain how many iterations of what duration?

Average life span of a poiston dart frog is about 3 weeks. So generations are about two weeks apart. Call it 25 generations per year.

According to current scientific theory frogs developed out of lungfish about 375 million years ago. So, call that the proto-frog. To get to the blue poison dart frog discussed in the article, and assuming other frog ancestors had similar life-spans you end up with:

25 (generations/year) X 35,000,000 (years) = 875 million generations for the features seen now to have evolved.

[Fungi]

Entoloma hochstetteri

also on its currency:

[ReaganGeneration2]

Because they differ in color

[Verginius Rufus]

One of the Bronze Age frescoes found at Thera (probably 17th century BC) shows blue monkeys. The species still exists (Ethiopia is the northern end of its range)—fur is a sort of bluish-gray in color.

[CtBigPat]

How about the Blue People of Kentucky? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates

[4Liberty]

[Robert DeLong]

I thought this was an honest discussion about Democrats, and how they are special, like the ones that ride the slow bus. Because everything that comes out of their mouth is stupid, and that’s for sure. 8>)

[higgmeister]

For Joe Biden it’s just poor circulation.

[Pollard]

Even the pretty ones just don't look good.