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To: bobdsmith

What evolution? Both kinds of moths existed at the beginning and end of the time in question. We did not get any new kind of moth out of this.


54 posted on 09/06/2005 7:07:48 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: The Red Zone

Evolution doesn't just refer to the appearance of new variants in a population, but also refers to changes in frequency of existing variants. So if pressure causes the dark variant to become more widespread than the light variant, or vice versa, that is an example of evolution.


56 posted on 09/06/2005 7:11:11 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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