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... an adaptation for insulation and an exaptation for flight.” Several years ago, I stumbled 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 ...

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Gamilia, I don't appreciate how you take Richard Dawkins words out of context. After the paragraph you site in "The Blind Watchmaker", Richard Dawkins goes on to say "Needless to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted ...

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Depending on what theory of evolution you follow, different answers can be found for this "paradox." Richard Dawkin's ideas appeal to me the most at the moment. Evolution is driven, not by population of macro-organisms, but by the combined workings of genetic variation ...

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biohazard wrote Here's an example of evolution being observed: http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/ (Richard Lenski's project on E. coli evolution) My first question is what kind of trade offs did this alleged evolution incur which is apparent in research such as this? Kind ...

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Here's an example of evolution being observed: http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/ (Richard Lenski's project on E. coli evolution) Lenski has created some 45,000 generations of E. coli, and there are signs that the populations have started to evolve along different ...

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