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Author Topic:   Natural selection? By means of suicide
Andya Primanda
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Message 3 of 7 (18404)
09-27-2002 4:47 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Delshad
09-26-2002 8:21 AM


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Originally posted by Delshad:
Or there is a fish, Im sorry but ive forgot the name but youll maybe recognise it anyway, that for the last 10-20 million years has crawled on its belly and its small fins up from the water it lives in for a journey out in the swamps , thus in most cases enabling its death, (it has no structure that even resembles a leg and it has no lungs), shouldnt natural selection making it easy for this poor fish.
In these cases and many more its seems like natural selection is taking a vacation.
If not, then please reply(Im quite curious myself).

http://goodnightstories.com/wildlife/fish/card5.htm
The walking fish... Periopthalmus, the mudskipper, has no lungs and its fin does not resemble a leg. However it leads a ahappy life in the tropical mangrove forests, looking for food in the muddy beaches. Periopthalmus can breathe air as long as its gills are wet.

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