To: new yorker 77
8 posted on
03/09/2006 2:49:17 PM PST by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: wallcrawlr
he stopped evolving? Evidently, yes. He found a niche which didn't require further adaptation. Nothing in the theory of Natural Selection requires that animals keep changing.
To: wallcrawlr
he stopped evolving?
If the rat squirrel adapted successfully to a particular ecological niche that remained basically unchanged, there would be no pressure for evolving.
46 posted on
03/09/2006 3:39:20 PM PST by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: wallcrawlr
he stopped evolving? No, not unless it found a magical way to stop all mutational changes from ever happening in its DNA, but there's no rule that things have to evolve in a way that produces large morphological change over ~10 million years, and it's not unusual for that to happen. This is entirely consistent with evolutionary biology.
To: wallcrawlr
he stopped evolving? Eleven million years of random mutations, and not a single one favorable. He must have bad Karma.
153 posted on
03/10/2006 7:04:11 AM PST by
TN4Liberty
(Sixty percent of all people understand statistics. The other half are clueless.)
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