Predators

... the largest most attractive tail design has led to males with giant brilliant displays, even though this makes it more difficult to fly from predators. Although not a product of behavioral speciation, humans display this same mate selection preference behavior. In magazine advertising the ...

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My point is that Darwin said natural selection was the mechanism for evolution-right? I don't see how that's ever going to happen. The scenario you gave is very good, and natural selection is evident. But you have to have new information in the genome, and NS is taking away from the gene pool throug...

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I don't mean to be an agitator. I'm just asking myself the question how are a bunch of carp eating everything in sight and multiplying without control going to be a mechanism for variation in the genome?

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How much research has been done the role of feral species who may upset the food chain like the asian carp in the Mississippi, or cain toads in Australia? How much factor would this be in natural selection?

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... the largest most attractive tail design has led to males with giant brilliant displays, even though this makes it more difficult to fly from predators. In humans the looks of "sex symbols" are sometimes computer enhanced to represent the conscious ideals not yet common in our morphology. ...

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