Posted on 10/22/2021 8:28:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
This is like the peppered moth phenomenon. It’s not that the evolved. What happened was that the makeup of the population evolved, as what has happened to the human population of north amereica since the white man first set foot here.
Blacks make up a much larger part of the population of the US than in 1500, and native americans make up a much smaller percentage. But nobody evolved. Rather, the population stats evolved.
Will we quickly evolve into having a new obnoxious filtering device in our visage?
I guess we’ll find out if having tusks is a necessary survival trait. It appears not to be.
Elephants use their tusks for digging and protection..................
Oh, did the brady bunch get assault tusks banned and we missed it?
Evolution is selective breeding on very long time scales. There is some reference in the Bible to what is a day to man vs what is a day to God. Evolution is not anti God.
You don’t assume to know the mind of God do you?
:-)
Eisenstein even said: “God does not play dice with the universe”
What do we know. We haven’t got a clue about gravity or that mysterious force, dark matter or energy or whatever you want to call it.
All I know is you can see God in a Narwhals tusk.
Will we quickly evolve into having a new obnoxious filtering device in our visage?
Only if they start shooting the ones who don’t
I don’t assume to know the mind of God....
But this isn’t evolution, it is human induced selective breeding by criminals................
Oh, “THE PURGE”. Those unclean, unpatriotic, unvaxxed stoopid bast**ds. Right brandon?
I would’ve expect the market value for Ivory to be rather low right now. Most of the industrial uses are likely to have synthetic substitutes that cost a lot less.
Ivory has historically been used for piano and organ keys, billard balls and furniture handles. There is some electrical equipment that also uses Ivory.
I’m thinking it is mostly instrinsic value that keep Ivory viewed as something ‘precious’.
If I was more serious about learning to play the piano, I would learn even while using keys made of acryllic.
Time to leave the remaining tusked elephants alone.
Between 1977 and 2004, the proportion of females who lacked tusks jumped from 18.5 percent to 33 percent.
IOW, artificial selection. Melanism in squirrels is a recessive trait, but when they live and breed in a protected area, such as a college campus, there is a noticeable increase in the number of black squirrels, and that leads to a universal or near-universal survival of the recessive trait.
Thanks Red Badger.
And a noticeable increase in squirrel on squirrel crime................
Over the years I have posted that we should just tranq gun every elephant and rhino and remove their tusks, sell the ivory on the open market and use the money to ... protect such animals.
The criticism is usually sumthin like “somehow they need those tusks” but a guy with an AK47 is gonna give far more protection to the animal than the tusks.
Now, nature is having its own say in this controversy.
ICWUDT, melanist
tuskless elephants
lots of them in congress
Losing a body part is not evolution. It is devolution.
It’s BS!
Is nobody teaching the famous study where the scientist cut the tails off rats for multiple generations over years and... NONE of them produced tailless rats?!
It’s selective breeding which the world has known about since farming began and we domesticated wolves and cats!
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