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To: onedoug
Just for starters, aside from the origin of life itself, how did reproduction evolve?

Reproduction didn't evolve. Reproduction was a prerequisite before evolution could occur in the first place.
74 posted on 01/19/2006 2:16:18 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio

"Reproduction didn't evolve"

Nice catch. :)


78 posted on 01/19/2006 2:17:33 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: Dimensio

Hmm....


81 posted on 01/19/2006 2:19:27 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Dimensio; onedoug

"Reproduction didn't evolve. Reproduction was a prerequisite before evolution could occur in the first place."



But reproduction *did* evolve in certain species. Hyaenas give birth to one or two extremely large cubs (to which the mother is barely able to give birth) because only very large cubs could survive in the hyaenas' environment and if more than two were born they would all die; this strange form of reproduction, unique to the hyaenas among African mammals, is almost certainly the result of evolution.

And, of course, if species with asexual reproduction eventually evolved into species with sexual reproduction, then that would be a case of macro evolution of reproduction.


169 posted on 01/19/2006 3:47:35 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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