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... A sudden change in the environment could cause a population to become extinct but it would depend on the severity of the change and the effect on the organism, organisms with certain genetic traits which help them survive better in the new changed environment may survive and pass on ...

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... allegedly didn't come into being until blue green algae produced it. My question is how did the water vapor ever condense with all that greenhouse effect. Dejavu, water vapor is being continually pumped out of volcanoes, air becomes saturated, even with high temperatures if the air is saturated ...

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My question is how did the water vapor ever condense with all that greenhouse effect. This is why sea levels were probably much lower back then. no life unless you say archaens (extremeophiles) were first--but bacteria fossils are supposedly oldest. And I believe ...

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... allegedly didn't come into being until blue green algae produced it. My question is how did the water vapor ever condense with all that greenhouse effect. We are worried about global warming now with less than 1% CO2 in the atmosphere. Venus is a good example --the atmosphere is mostly CO2 and ...

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Two good books: The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (NS and adaptation in Finches) The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks (founder effect, genetic drift) You're right that natural selection and evolution are not synonymous, but it is not correct to say that natural selection has been ...

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