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Author Topic:   Evolutionary Adaptaion
Damouse
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Message 1 of 5 (317337)
06-03-2006 7:10 PM


Evolution is/has been about natural selection, right?
I've heard all sorts of theories about adaptation, but haven't found them all in one place.
so:
Is adaptation to an enviroment possible? Lets say you move a group of a hundred people out to an island thats made of broken glass. Assuming they died natural deaths, would their feet harden over the years? In other words, would they adapt to their surroundings and pass that on to their children?
Possible?
Edited by Damouse, : Fix

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Message 2 of 5 (317699)
06-04-2006 6:33 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Damouse
06-03-2006 7:10 PM


As it is at the moment this topic makes no sense to me.
Is the question whether the population's descendents would have tougher feet? Is the question whether that population of 100 would adapt to the environment?
Your question seems to have little if any connection to your initial statements.
Could you try an edit this to more fully develop the question so your meaning is clearer?
TTFN,
AW

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Damouse
Member (Idle past 4905 days)
Posts: 215
From: Brookfield, Wisconsin
Joined: 12-18-2005


Message 3 of 5 (318037)
06-05-2006 5:30 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by AdminWounded
06-04-2006 6:33 PM


i edited it. I meant this topic as more a question, but it is debatable.
Edited by Damouse, : No reason given.

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Message 4 of 5 (318206)
06-06-2006 6:15 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Damouse
06-05-2006 5:30 PM


To be honest I don't think your revisions have made anything any clearer. I'll promote this though to see if we can provide an answer to your question. Just say in the thread when you have a satisfactory answer and I can close it down.
TTFN,
AW

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Message 5 of 5 (318209)
06-06-2006 6:16 AM


Thread copied to the Evolutionary Adaptaion thread in the Biological Evolution forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.

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