Founder

... reproduce amongst themselves. There will be many descendants of Bird1.0 that possess the traits of a "bird" (lets call them Bird1.1). Founder-effect will have been mitigated by cross-breeding with the parent population at first. Eventually the new traits introduced by the first Bird1.0 ...

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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 ...

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... Physician * Dr. John N. Moore, Science Educator * Dr. John W. Moreland, Mechanical engineer and Dentist * Dr. Henry M. Morris (1918–2006), founder of the Institute for Creation Research. * Dr. Arlton C. Murray, Paleontologist * Dr. John D. Morris, Geologist * Dr. Len Morris, Physiologist ...

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... of Death: Died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle laced with Ebola. June 22, 2004: Thomas Gold, 84 —Expertise: He was the founder, and for twenty years the director, of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, where he was a close colleague of Planetary Society ...

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... doesn't exist, most HIV DISSIDENTS believe either it alone cannot cause AIDS (i.e. a co-factor is required or it is useless, such as it's actual founder, Luc Montagnier, believes), or that HIV exists, but cannot create AIDS no matter how you cut it. You'll find a considerable amount of the HIV ...

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