[PatrickHenry]

A welcome break from the Dover trial.

[Rocky]

It doesn't occur to anyone that there are assumptions built into this analyis?

Because of geographic isolation that began between 1 and 2 million years ago with the retreat of rainforest to higher elevations, two separate frog lineages developed in the northern and southern parts of the species' coastal range - only to be reconnected less than 8,000 years ago as the climate got wetter and warmer and the rainforest expanded.

Hoskin and his colleagues found that the northern and southern calls of the male frog, which are what females pay attention to in the mating game, had become different from each other.

We don't know that they were all originally the same before the communities were divided. We don't know what the calls of the male frog sounded like before they were divided.

there may have been selection pressure to evolve a mating strategy...; This appears to have occurred in the contact region...

Speculation. Why is this kind of stuff given such high credibility by evolutionists? Can it be because it aligns with what they already believe?

[Rock N Jones]

When I’m calling you-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou
Will you answer true-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou

[VadeRetro]

... in less than 8,000 years

So you were there?

(But I see the real creos beat me to it, and with a straight face at that. How easy it is to do "the REAL science!")

[BluH2o]

... began selecting mates with a the southern call type.

So those Yankee accents drove those little trollops wild ... in Australia north is north & south is south ... but north is actually closer to the equator ... so those southern gentlemen frogs are Yankees (by our standards) ... get my drift? Oh, never mind ...

[RunningWolf]

Is there any science on these threads? ha ha ha ;)

[Smokin' Joe]

While northern and southern lineages could breed successfully, they apparently had diverged enough during their million-year separation that offspring of southern females and northern males failed to develop beyond the tadpole stage. Though crosses involving northern females and southern males successfully produced frogs, the offspring developed more slowly than the offspring of pairs of northern frogs.

Do the southern frogs (or the northern ones for that matter) have some disease or parasite which could cause this effect? Something like what caused all the three-legged frogs a few years back?

[Amish with an attitude]

Things have really begun to slip for you evolutionists when junk science starts to look like "a welcome break".

[P-Marlowe]

Evolution at work!

Just 8000 years ago these animals were... frogs.

And now, after a mere 8000 years they have evolved into... frogs.

Amazing.

I guess this puts the final nail into the old creationist coffin, eh?

[Thombo2]

"A welcome break from the trial."I'll second that.Good article.This is a very good example of evolution at work.

[tutstar]

I'd hate for you to miss this one! LOL

[stocksthatgoup]

John Kerry is proof. A frog only a mother could love.