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To: stremba
Indivdual organisms do not evolve. Populations of organisms do.

Sorry, but if individuals do NOT evolve, then there's no way in hell populations of them will!

186 posted on 12/09/2004 3:38:50 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie

Wow. That's actually THE most irrational thing I've ever seen said on one of these threads, and that's saying something.


209 posted on 12/09/2004 5:47:17 PM PST by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: Elsie

Imagine a colony of bacteria. There are one million bacteria in the colony and 10000 of them (1%) are antibiotic resistant. Now you treat the colony with an antibiotic. Let's say 90% of the non-resistant bacteria die and 10% of the resistant ones do. Now you have 99000 non resistant bacteria left and 9000 resistant ones. The frequency of the allele for antibiotic resistance has gone from 1% to 8.3%. That is a change of allele frequencies in the gene pool of a population. Evolution has occurred. No organism in the population has changed, but the population as a whole has.


251 posted on 12/10/2004 7:01:02 AM PST by stremba
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