Faith writes:
Aren't mutations supposed to be RANDOM? But you think this one just handily showed up when needed?
Yes, mutations are random. Discovering this mutation from, I believe it said 1 million years ago, tells us nothing about the multitude of other mutations that would have happened, but that were deleterious and caused the mouse that got said mutation to fail to procreate. This is how it works, it is not a single mutation that arrived just when it was needed.
Rather, it was a bunch of different mutations, one of which (Dark fur) happened to be advantageous in the enviroment that the animal lived in. This allowed the mouse with the dark fur mutation to propagate and this mutation begins to move toward fixation.
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. - Richard Dawkins
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