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Taz
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Message 4 of 41 (402810)
05-30-2007 1:30 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by taylor_31
05-29-2007 11:24 PM


This is a joke, right?
No, really, this is a joke, right? You seriously can't think of a reason why some plants have evolved to have edible fruits? Even my 10 year old niece know the answer to this one.
Is this a joke?
Last time I checked, they teach this kind of stuff in grade school.
Edited by Tazmanian Devil, : No reason given.


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Taz
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Message 12 of 41 (402859)
05-30-2007 11:39 AM
Reply to: Message 8 by Dr Adequate
05-30-2007 9:08 AM


First of all, my apology for the previous post. I was bitten by the anger bug last night.
It's a fair question.
Is it really?
Back to my niece. One time I was babysitting her after school. We started talking about stuff. It turned out that she had learned that animal eat fruit and inadvertantly deposit the seeds around. This is a 10 year old kid in grade school we're talking about.
It's not that I think every question about evolution means creationist propaganda. It's just that some of these questions really really make me think it's creationist attempt to spark up controversy. Why? Because these are the most obvious of the obvious stuff. Like I said, it's stuff that they teach in grade school. In fact, right now at this moment I am vaguely remembering learning about this in grade school, and it was a christian school I went to.
Another reason is the only time I've ever seen people not know this very common knowledge stuff is when they are creationists thinking they've stumbled onto something that would disprove evolution for good.
You eat an apple. Either you crap out the seeds or you throw away the core somewhere else far away from the mother tree. It doesn't take that much mental effort to then come up with the idea that the more spread out the seeds are the better for the genes of the individual because of less competition for resources with the mother tree. Also more chances of survival of the "family" gene. You don't need a college biology degree. Grade school stuff.


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Taz
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Message 21 of 41 (402943)
05-30-2007 8:14 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by Neutralmind
05-30-2007 5:54 PM


Neutralmind writes:
So, is it likely, that in later human evolution we will evolve to like vegetables and "healthy" products more?
No. One reason is that there is currently no visible sexual selection against people who don't eat vegetable. If there's no selection against people who don't eat vegetable or a selection for people who do, people who tend to like vegetables and "healthy" products more don't really have an advantage over those woh don't.


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Message 30 of 41 (403023)
05-31-2007 1:20 PM
Reply to: Message 29 by New Cat's Eye
05-31-2007 1:01 PM


CS writes:
That's sounds alright, but remember that everyone dies. What is really important is if you reproduce before you die. The selective pressure wouldn't be from not surviving the diet, it would be from being to fat to get laid, to put it bluntly.
Its not happening because people aren't selective enough in their mate choice. Or maybe they are selective enough, but so low on the selective meter that its going to take forever for anyone to see any change.
Funny how you mentioned this. Virtually all my fat and obese friends got married and produced children long before I even met my wife.


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