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... will pass on their genetic material to offspring, but the genetics of the population is what changes. In the peppered moth example, black moths survived to reproduce which in turn shifted the population from mostly white to mostly black. With the finch example, those birds with smaller ...

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by robsabba
Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:29 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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... my previous post and repeating yourself. ignoring nothing I wrote three paragraphs, and you just repeated your previous posts. your talk of moths and your blood example as has been pointed out shows ns is wrong if a trait appears in an off spring which is not present in its parents then ...

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by robsabba
Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:22 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... NS actually works, rather than your stawman version. You are just ignoring my previous post and repeating yourself. ignoring nothing your talk of moths and your blood example as has been pointed out shows ns is wrong if a trait appears in an off spring which is not present in its parents then ...

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by gamila
Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:37 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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... represented by a range of sizes. The result of evolution was that that range was shifted to the smaller end. Another example would be the peppered moths famous in England. Most were white because they could blend in with the lichens growing on the trees which camoflauged them from hunting birds. ...

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by robsabba
Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:48 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... upon a version of this phenomena while reading a book by Richard Dawkins. He explains that a moth spirals into a candle or fire at night because moths use the moonlight for navigation and when the flame distracts them, they fly off course. This is a way of describing a behavior that is encoded ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
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