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Author Topic:   Rapid Evolution in Lizards
teen4christ
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Message 18 of 57 (464404)
04-25-2008 12:30 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by ICANT
04-24-2008 10:07 PM


Re: Re-Lizard
ICANT writes
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They were still genetically the same as the ones they had left in 1971.
ICANT, despite our discussion about this for months now, you still don't know what evolution actually says. Somehow, you keep going back to the same misconceptions you had earlier.
Evolution is the change in allele frequency. Suppose that tomorrow a virus wipes out everybody who's got blue and green eyes. After a couple generation, the genotype is extinct. That's still evolution. The allele frequency of the population has changed.
Or suppose that tomorrow a virus kills off everyone who doesn't have blue eyes. After a couple generations, we're left with only blue eyes. That's still evolution simply because the allele frequency has changed.
Edited by teen4christ, : No reason given.

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