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To: GodGunsGuts
It seems the 1% difference of genetics for the 99% of what makes us totally different. How come humans do not evolve into monkeys and monkeys evolve into humans more often if it ever happened once?
17 posted on 07/13/2009 10:54:13 AM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: mountainlion
Because the environmental conditions need to be just right for one species to evolve into another and evolution itself is a rather slow process overall.

And one species which evolves into another can not change back. As a matter of fact, there is a evolutionary law that an organ once lost or modified, can't return to its original state.

For instance. Snakes are believed to have evolved from a burrowing lizard type reptile which was on the way to losing its eyesight as many fossorial animals have. In the process of losing its eyesight, the ability to focus on objects at different distances was lost. When snakes later evolved back into terrestrial animals, they had lost the ability to focus their eyes as all other vertebrates do - by changing the shape of their lens. So they developed another way to do so by changed the POSTION of the lens with respect its distance from the retina. They are the only vertebrates which do this. It was impossible for them to “re-evolve” the lost method of focusing their eyes.

22 posted on 07/13/2009 11:08:14 AM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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