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What is the mechanism of this "adaption"
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I suppose it would be the ability to handle changes in the enviroment without becoming extinct. However, these traits are already present in the animal before the enviromental condition which causes them to appear occurs. There also reaches a point where no further change can occur. I believe this is apparent because the enviroment changes very dramatically sometimes, yet animals die out, and we witness no new species.
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Mutations do not proove evolution. Mutations are never "good" or helpful to an organism. The plant or animal that is mutated is always worse off than he was before. [QUOTE]
How do you know this? A mutation that improved the oxygen affinity of haemaglobin would be positive, a few codons reversed/removed/added could do this, its only a molecule. There is no reason a given mutation can't be positive.
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Do you know of an example of an animal with a good mutation?
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Mutations do effectively scramble existing genetic information. But this IS new information. It is interpreted into different proteins that may have NEVER existed before, just by switching a few codons around.
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The animal looses the same amount of information that it gains. And like I said, the gains are never good.