Brad McFall writes:
Because Boscovich found TWO return directions from infinity while I personally do not believe in "poltergeist".
it's lines like that that just make me lose interest in Brad's posts...
navajoeverclear: i'm going to take a stab at your first question. i'm not sure if i'm right, but from my understanding of evolution, it sounds right. Groups of organisms progress as groups, and not as discreet species. Most organisms have to be compatible enough with another of its kind to be able to reproduce. So if you have a group of dogs, and they are interbreeding, some differences may mutate into the population, however the differences are spread through out the group because they all inter breed. The change in species occurs when these differences build up over time. The only way for this to happen is if a single group is separated in to multiple groups, and then each separate group accumulates mutations over time.
Ok, this may be way off, so please someone correct me if i'm wrong. If what i said above is correct (for the most part) then in asexually reproducing organisms we should see a lot of blurring between "species", not the seemingly discreet lines between bisexual animals (bisexual... that can't be right). Do we see this?
edit: fixed quote
[This message has been edited by TheoMorphic, 11-02-2003]