[PatrickHenry]

A welcome break from the Dover trial.

[mlc9852]

Wow! I didn't know scientists lived that long!

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 310 names. See the list's explanation at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped. See what's new in The List-O-Links.

[martin_fierro]

Picky female frogs drive evolution of new species in less than 8,000 years

The slutty female frogs never get any credit.

[AndrewB]

What? No Helen Thomas pic? Yall are slippin....

[Doogle]

To find a recently evolved species like this is exceptional, at least in my experience

this guy has never seen females in the left's NOW organization

Doogle

[pabianice]

Females, who choose mates based only on their call,

Hey! Just like Feminists! Maybe this will help drive Liberals to extinction.

[RightWhale]

You'd think that one example of something that evolved would be the final nail in the coffin, but of course 'they' are driven by something other than science. It never was about science.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don't understand. The southern group was isolated from the other group for a long period of time, but didn't develop this "speciation" -- they were supposedly all still compatable.

But then, having found each other again, the same behavior (breeding only among southern frogs) led to a speciation in only 8000 years?

What was different between the physical separation and the "choice" separation?

Isn't it much more likely that the southern population already have females which were incompatable with the other group? And when they started inbreeding again, those who couldn't get pregnant from the northern group would have babies which couldn't get pregnant from the northern group?

Meanwhile those who still COULD would randomly get inpregnated from their own group OR the northern group, and since the cross-breed children were inferior they tended to die out?

So over time simple natural selection tended to select toward those southern frogs who could only get pregnant by inbreeding?

How do they know what the ones from 8000 years ago did?


And it is rational that frogs would somehow notice their children were dying if they bred with the "wrong" frogs, and some of them would be smart enough to change their behavior and only breed with the "right" frogs?

That seems like a stretch even for true believers.

[smith288]

The French?

[js1138]

I'm thinking about posting this link on a regular basis. What do you think?

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/creationist

[Night Hides Not]

The evolution of this species took far fewer than 8,000 years:

Hopefully, the damage to our environment will also linger less than 8,000 years.

[Conservativehomeschoolmama]

Well, according tho what I read...it's still a frog. What did the frog evolve into? Not a very strong case for evolution.

[balch3]

Darwinist barf alert.

[Theophilus]

"...found that their hybrid offspring were less viable"

Hmmmmmm, this guy may not believe in intelligent design, but he definitely believes in intelligent frogs practicing eugenics.

[wyattearp]

So, if I am reading this correctly:

The Southern Lady frogs didn't like the Northern Carpetbagger Yankee frogs, and would only accept Southern Gentlemen frogs that could belt out a good, long, rebel yell as a potential mate, thereby creating a new species in isolation.

The possibilities for jokes here are endless...

[Hoplite]

I guess the famale frog's pickiness explains why Kermit is dating a pig, and the world has been blessed with Figs and Prog(rammer)s.

[bert]

A simultaneous French study determined that the legs of the southern male tasted pretty much like chicken whereas the legs of the northern male had a stronger flavor akin to duck.

It was also determined that the hybrid tadpoles destined to never reach maturity were especially tasty when coated with a truffled bernaise sauce. The rarity of the hybrids in the wild has made the dish outrageously expensive in Paris 5 star gourmet establishments.

Both varieties however succumbed to slowly rising water temperature in the same manner. Neither variety issued the distinctive mating call while experiencing hot water.

[Alouette]

I always suspected the French are a different species.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Yea right. Evolution never happened.

[TaxRelief]

In what way, physically, were they "unable to mate with either of the original frog populations"?